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Call for Papers - Deadline: 8 May 2020 (Friday)

China Economics Summer Institute (CESI)

21 - 22 August 2020, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

The 13th China Economics Summer Institute (CESI) will take place between 21 – 22 August 2020 at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. The objective of CESI is to create a network and community of top level scholars working on Chinese economic development (working papers of previous CESI available at http://cesi.econ.cuhk.edu.hk/). This initiative is currently co-sponsored by the Chinese University of Hong Kong – Tsinghua University Joint Research Center for Chinese Economy, the Institute for Emerging Market Studies at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University, the Stanford King Center on Global Development at Stanford University, and the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University. The Summer Institute is organized in collaboration with the BREAD, NBER and CEPR networks of academic economists.

This call invites you to submit a paper or express your interest in attending the above Summer Institute, which will be hosted this year by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, during 21 – 22 August 2020. The workshop intends to bring together the best scholars working on China in China, the US and Europe with other top level scholars who have an interest in working on China in the future. We welcome applications not only from those who want to present their research on China but also from anybody who has an interest in doing serious economic research on China and would like to use the workshop as means of exploring this possibility.

The Summer Institute will bring together between 20 and 30 participants for a period of two days. During the workshop, there will be seminar presentations and free time to allow scholars to interact and explore the possibility of doing joint research projects. Senior scholars who will attend will be available for consultations with junior scholars. Afternoon sessions will give the opportunity to a select group of young scholars and Ph.D students to present their work.

We can cover economy apex travel and accommodation costs for selected paper presenters and participants. Please indicate when you reply whether you will require this funding or whether you will be able to cover your own travel costs. Please note that it will not be possible to accept all applications to attend this Summer Institute. At the moment, funding is available for travel and accommodation expenses in accordance with standard guidelines (economy apex travel) but, where possible, it is hoped that some of the selected participants will use grants at their disposal to cover expenses and thereby free up space for others.

We hope that the outbreaks of new coronavirus would end in the summer. However, it is likely that we would have to postpone the conference if the situation is not fully stabilized in June.

The Barcelona GSE organizes the eighth Barcelona GSE Summer Forum. The Summer Forum is a series of independent workshops that cover the main fields of Economics. The Summer Forum 2020 will take place from June 8 to June 19, 2020. The venue will be Casa Convalescència. More detailed information on the Summer Forum 2020 and the previous editions is available on http://www.barcelonagse.eu/summer-forum.html

We would like to invite you to submit a paper to the workshop: Advances in Micro Development (AMD) Economics

The workshop will run for 2 days and will take place on June 15-16, 2020. This workshop aims at being a showcase of recent outstanding contributions in micro Development Economics, and at creating an annual meeting of top researchers in this field in the framework of the Barcelona GSE Summer Forum. Both empirical and theoretical contributions are welcome and submissions from both senior and junior researchers are encouraged.

The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2020. To submit a paper, please use this link https://app-summerforum.barcelonagse.eu. Submissions should include either a full paper or an extended abstract with the main results. Authors chosen to present papers will be notified approximately by mid-March. A preliminary program will be announced by mid-April.

The Barcelona Summer Forum is a series of independent workshops. When you submit your paper, you will be able to see the topics and dates of other workshops that will take place within the Summer Forum. The same paper cannot be submitted to more than one workshop but you are welcome to submit a different paper to another workshop. The acceptance of the paper is conditional on the submitting author attending the conference for its full two-day duration.

There is no registration fee, and lunch as well as conference dinner during the workshop will be provided for participants. The workshop organization will provide accommodation for up to three nights, but speakers should cover their own travel expenses. The Barcelona GSE Summer Forum is one of the activities supported by the Severo Ochoa Program of Centers of Excellence (SEV-2015-0563). Funding for the AMD workshop gratefully acknowledge the support from the Ramon Areces Foundation, Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and FEDER (through grant PGC2018-094364-B-I00), the Université de Génève and the EU.

The Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) is pleased to announce that the 39th BREAD Conference on Development Economics will be hosted by Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, on Friday May 15 – Saturday May 16, 2020.

We invite submissions from interested researchers on any topic within the area of development economics. The deadline for submissions is March 6, 2020. Only full-length papers will be considered. Please send your paper to bread2020@kellogg.northwestern.edu

All papers presented at the conference will be selected through this open submissions process. Please note that there will be time for only a small number of presentations. The conference lasts about a day and a half; there are no parallel sessions.

The scientific organizers of the conference are Lori Beaman, Nancy Qian, Joe Kaboski and David McKenzie.

You are invited to submit your research for presentation at the National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER) / BREAD Development Economics Fall program meeting which will be held in Cambridge, MA, on November 22-23. The deadline for submissions is 5 pm Boston time on Friday, 13 September. Only completed papers will be considered for the program.

The program will be selected by Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Melissa Dell, Seema Jayachandran, Edward Miguel, Benjamin Olken, and Dean Yang. All papers presented at the conference will be selected through this open submissions process. Please note that there will be time for only a very small number of presentations. There will not be formal discussants but ample time will be allowed for discussion of the research during the presentations. Travel and hotel expenses will be covered for one author per paper that is presented at the conference following NBER travel reimbursement guidelines.

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CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF UNIVERSITY OF AFRICAN ECONOMIES, OXFORD

CALL FOR PAPERS

The CSAE Conference is an annual three day event with a broad focus on issues that are relevant for economic developmentin Africa. Papers addressing economic analysis relevant for economic development in Africa are invited for consideration. Papers discussing countries other than those in Africa are welcome, however, they must deal with issues central to Africa.

All submissions must be made via the CSAE Conference 2020 Submission Website. Guidance on how to submit a paper can be found on the CSAE website.

Submission deadline: 18 October 2019

Decisions will be made by early December 2019

Due to high demand at the CSAE Conference, we will only consider FULL DRAFTS of paper submissions. You are also required to submit an abstract for your paper. Authors can only submit one paper for consideration for the Conference and should ensure that only one submission is made per paper (co-authors should not submit the same paper for consideration). There is a limited budget to fund African presenters who are currently living and working in Africa, and who will be travelling from Africa to the CSAE Conference 2020. If awarded, funding will cover flights, accommodation, and conference registration costs. Please note: speakers who are awarded funding are expected to attend the Conference for all three days. To apply for funding, please select YES when asked in the online submission form.

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Call for papers: Conference on Forced Displacement

UN City, Copenhagen, January 17-18, 2020

In 2018 the number of refugees, asylum-seekers and internally-displaced people reached its highest level since the creation of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) after the Second World War. In recent years, the World Bank Group (WBG) and UNHCR have significantly stepped up the scale and scope of their joint initiatives on forced displacement. On the data side, these two organizations have recently established the Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement (JDC) in Copenhagen, Denmark, thanks to a generous contribution from the Danish government. Part of the JDC mandate is to stimulate further interest and research around data on forcibly displaced populations.

Recognizing the need for robust evidence to inform policy decisions and program and project design, the JDC is partnering with the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University and the Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) and Middle-East Initiate (MEI) at Harvard University to organize an international research conference on forced displacement to be held January 17-18, 2020 at the U.N. City in Copenhagen, Denmark. The goals of the conference are to focus attention on emerging scholarship and establish links between researchers and data providers to promote new work on this important topic.

Papers presented at the conference will be eligible for consideration for a special issue on Forced Displacement in the Journal of Development Economics. Details of the submission process will be provided at the conference. Presenters are not required to submit conference papers to this special issue.

To be considered for inclusion on the program, completed papers or extended abstracts should be submitted to:

Please put "Submission" in the Subject Box. Authors chosen to present papers will be notified by October 1, 2019. Economy air travel and hotel will be covered for one presenter for each paper.

A small number of additional invitations to the conference will be extended to researchers active in this area. Please inquire at JDC2020conference@worldbank.org using the word "Invitation" in the Subject Box. Scholars from low-income countries or countries particularly affected by forced displacement are encouraged to apply.

The CEPR annual symposium of the Development Economics Programme will be hosted by Trinity College Dublin on Wednesday 4 September and Thursday 5 September, 2019. The workshop is organised by TIME (Trinity College Dublin), STICERD (London School of Economics) and CEPR and is funded by Irish Aid. We now invite submissions for this conference from interested researchers on any topic within the area of Development Economics. The deadline for submission is Monday 20 May 2019. We accept both full-length papers and extended abstracts for projects at an advanced stage.

A pre-conference session will also be arranged for junior faculty to get the opportunity to present their work. Please use the same submission process, selecting the “Pre-Conference” session in your application, if you would like your work to be considered for this part of the conference.

Funding

The sponsoring institutions can cover accommodation and travel according to the CEPR guidelines for presenters. However, funding is limited and we encourage more senior participants to use their own grants to cover costs.

How to apply

Please note that there will be time for only a small number of presentations. The conference lasts about a day and a half; there are no parallel sessions.

The 12th China Economics Summer Institute (CESI) will take place between 17 – 18 August 2019 at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University (working papers of previous CESI workshops available at http://cesi.econ.cuhk.edu.hk/). The objective of CESI is to create a network and community of top level scholars working on Chinese economic development. This initiative is currently co-sponsored by the Chinese University of Hong Kong – Tsinghua University Joint Research Center for Chinese Economy, the Institute for Emerging Market Studies at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University, the Stanford Center on Global Poverty and Development at Stanford University, and the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University. The Summer Institute is organized in collaboration with the BREAD, NBER and CEPR networks of academic economists.

This call invites you to submit a paper or express your interest in attending the above Summer Institute, which will be hosted this year by Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, during 17 – 18 August 2019. The workshop intends to bring together the best scholars working on China in China, the US and Europe with other top level scholars who have an interest in working on China in the future. We welcome applications not only from those who want to present their research on China but also from anybody who has an interest in doing serious economic research on China and would like to use the workshop as means of exploring this possibility.

The Summer Institute will bring together between 20 and 30 participants for a period of two days. During the workshop, there will be seminar presentations and free time to allow scholars to interact and explore the possibility of doing joint research projects. Senior scholars who will attend will be available for consultations with junior scholars. Afternoon sessions will give the opportunity to a select group of young scholars and Ph.D students to present their work.

We can cover economy apex travel and accommodation costs for selected paper presenters and participants. Please indicate when you reply whether you will require this funding or whether you will be able to cover your own travel costs. Please note that it will not be possible to accept all applications to attend this Summer Institute. At the moment, funding is available for travel and accommodation expenses in accordance with standard guidelines (economy apex travel) but, where possible, it is hoped that some of the selected participants will use grants at their disposal to cover expenses and thereby free up space for others.

BREAD conference at University of Maryland, May 3-4, 2019

The Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) is pleased to announce that the 37th BREAD Conference on Development Economics will be hosted by the University of Maryland in College Park, MD, on Friday May 3 – Saturday May 4, 2019.

We invite submissions from interested researchers on any topic within the area of Development Economics. The deadline for submissions is February 18, 2019. Only full-length papers will be considered. Please send your paper to BREAD2019@umd.edu

All papers presented at the conference will be selected through this open submissions process. Please note that there will be time for only a small number of presentations. The conference lasts about a day and a half; there are no parallel sessions.

The Scientific Organizers of the Conference are Sebastian Galiani (University of Maryland), Garance Genicot (Georgetown), and Kenneth Leonard (University of Maryland).

The Barcelona GSE organizes the Seventh Barcelona GSE Summer Forum. The Summer Forum is a series of independent workshops that cover the main fields of Economics. The Summer Forum 2019 will take place from June 10 to June 21, 2019. The venue will be UPF Balmes Building, Balmes, 132 – 08008 in central Barcelona.

We would like to invite you to submit a paper to the workshop ADVANCES IN MICRO DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS, which will run for 2 days and will take place on June 10-11, 2019 in Barcelona. This workshop aims at being a showcase of recent outstanding contributions in micro Development Economics, and at creating an annual meeting of researchers in this field in the framework of the Barcelona GSE Summer Forum. Both empirical and theoretical contributions are encouraged.

The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2019. To submit a paper, please use this link https://app-summerforum.barcelonagse.eu. Submissions should include either a full paper or an extended abstract with the main results. Authors chosen to present papers will be notified approximately by mid-March. A preliminary program will be announced by mid-April.

Please note that the Barcelona Summer Forum is a series of independent workshops. When you submit your paper, you will be able to see the topics and dates of other workshops that will take place within the Summer Forum. The same paper cannot be submitted to more than one workshop but you are welcome to submit a different paper to another workshop. The workshop organization will provide support for accommodation for speakers and limited funding will be available only to partially cover travel costs for junior researchers who lack alternative funding sources. If you have questions, do not hesitate in getting in touch with any of the organizers.

The Barcelona GSE Summer Forum is one of the activities supported by the Severo Ochoa Program of Centers of Excellence (SEV-2015-0563). Funding for the AMD workshop is also gratefully acknowledged from the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad of the Spanish Government (grant ECO2015-69869-R and grant ECO2015-67602-P) and the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union (grant PCIG14-GA-2013-631510).

Department of Economics, Carlos III University of Madrid, June 17-18, 2019

The French Development Agency (AFD) Research Department, the World Bank Development Research Group (DECRG) and the Department ofEconomics at Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M) are jointly organizing the 12th International Conference on “Migration and Development”.The conference is devoted to investigating ways in which international migration affects economic and social change in developing countries.Possible topics include the effects of migration on poverty, inequality, and human capital formation; social networks and migration; diasporaexternalities; remittances; brain drain; migration and institutional/technological/demographic change, today and in the past.

You are invited to submit your research for presentation at the National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER) Development Economics Fall program meeting which will be held in Cambridge, MA, on 30 November -1 December. The deadline for submissions is 6 am EST on Tuesday, 25 September. Only completed papers will be considered for the program. Please submit your papers at http://papers.nber.org/confsubmit/backend/cfp?id=DEVf18 .

The program will be selected by Esther Duflo, Joe Kaboski, Jeremy Magruder, Mark Rosenzweig, Duncan Thomas and Chris Woodruff. All papers presented at the conference will be selected through this open submissions process. Please note that there will be time for only a very small number of presentations. There will not be formal discussants but ample time will be allowed for discussion of the research during the presentations. Travel and hotel expenses will be covered for one author per paper that is presented at the conference following NBER travel reimbursement guidelines.

DFID, UNHCR, and the World Bank group have joined forces under a DFID Trust Fund to identify questions that are under-researched, of global interest, and highly policy-relevant on the topic of forced displacement and jobs. Within the initiative, the World Banks Jobs Group will fund one or several research projects to advance global knowledge on forced displacement and jobs, regarding (1) the impact of forced displacement on labor markets in host communities, and (2) the impact of jobs interventions in the context of forced displacement.

For further details please see the draft Terms of Reference attached.

FIRM PROFILE For this assignment the World Bank is not looking for an individual consultant. Submissions will be considered from research centers and institutes, universities, firms and similar entities.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS The World Bank Group invites interested entities to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested entities must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services (publications, description of similar assignments, experience in similar conditions, availability of appropriate skills among researchers (CVs), etc.) and provide a short abstract-style outline (one page max.) showing that they will substantively address the research questions posed, and demonstrating prima facie feasibility. Please note that the total size of all attachments should be less than 5MB. Entities may associate and form a consortium to enhance their qualifications. Please do not submit full proposals at this stage.

ELIGIBILITY

The following eligibility restrictions apply: Minimum 1 year in business; No more than 20% of revenue from World Bank; Appropriate business licenses/certifications; Acceptance of World Bank Group terms and Conditions.

NOTES Following this invitation for Expression of Interest, a shortlist of qualified entities will be formally invited to submit proposals. Shortlisting and selection will be subject to the availability of funding.

Only those entities which have been shortlisted will receive notification. No debrief will be provided to entities which have not been shortlisted.

CHIEF ECONOMIST

Deadline for applications: March 20th 2018

The World Bank Group (“the Bank”) is seeking a Chief Economist to provide intellectual leadership for the Bank’s economic research agenda. The Chief Economist reports to the President and advises him on economic issues, influencing the agenda of the Bank. The position will be a two-year term (with some flexibility according to the needs and availability of the successful candidate), and is based in Washington D.C.

Background & General Description

The World Bank Group is one of the world's largest sources of development assistance and knowledge for developing countries. It consists of five institutions that specialize in different aspects of development: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the International Development Association (IDA), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).With twin goals of ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity, the Bank works in more than 100 developing economies to improve living standards and to fight poverty. For each of its clients, the Bank works with government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector to formulate assistance strategies. A network of offices worldwide delivers the Bank's programs in countries, liaises with government and civil society, and works to increase understanding of development issues. The World Bank is owned by 188 member countries whose views and interests are represented by a Board of Governors and a Washington, DC-based Board of Directors. More than 190 countries participate in at least one of the five World Bank Group institutions.

Opportunities & Challenges: An Overview

The World Bank Group’s mission is becoming both more diverse and more focused. To achieve the Bank’s twin goals – ending extreme poverty by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity around the world – 16,000 experts in fields such as economics, engineering, health, sanitation, governance, education, urban planning, regulation – are helping countries drive sustainable, inclusive economic growth; invest in their people; and build resilience to shocks.As a result, the work of the Bank includes advising countries on investments that prepare them to compete in the economy of the future. It includes increasing work in states embroiled in fragility, conflict, and violence. And it means finding innovative ways to use scarce resources to make the global market system work for everyone.The World Bank Group brings expertise to help countries along their path of economic growth. The Bank is also a global knowledge hub, where innovative financial instruments (such as the swap, which the World Bank invented), and new approaches to ending poverty are being developed.

Key Responsibilities

The World Bank Group is seeking a Chief Economist who will influence the agenda of the Bank, and support the President and Senior Management in leading the institution during this time of transformative change. To address these challenges, the Chief Economist must have credibility as well as the leadership skills to engage with the global research community in meaningful dialogue.The Chief Economist will be expected to provide thought leadership to the internal and external development community; s/he will leverage the Bank’s research resources but will not be expected to manage the Development Economics Vice Presidency (“DEC”) or a large team, thus freeing up the individual to focus on the principal functions as described below.The three principal functions of the World Bank Group Chief Economist are:Intellectual leadership. Working closely with DEC and the eleven Bank Group chief economists (regional, practice-group, IFC and MIGA), the Chief Economist provides cutting-edge knowledge on policies for development. In particular, the successful candidate is expected to devise the research agenda for the Bank based on what is most important and relevant, and connect the research agenda with policy. Additionally, s/he will articulate a vision of how the Bank can achieve transformative impact around key global development challenges.Strategic leadership. Working with the President and Senior Management Team, the Chief Economist provides the analytical foundations of the Bank Group’s strategy, including shifts in that strategy in light of new research evidence. The Chief Economist will work to enhance the quality of operational projects, by challenging them to ensure analytical rigor. And s/he will manage the budget of the Chief Economist office.Global leadership. The Chief Economist will be an effective advocate of development. S/he will convene others from the global development community to create knowledge. The Chief Economist will engage with knowledge networks, including the research communities in the public and private sectors, government, academia and think tanks; leverage the Bank’s convening power to increase outreach of cutting edge research; and provide thought leadership to the global community of economists working on development.

Candidate Profile

The Chief Economist will be recognized through his/her scholarship in development or international economics. The candidate will possess many of the following professional and personal characteristics:

Economics Expertise: S/he will have a PhD in Economics, and minimum 15 years of relevant professional experience, including at least five years of experience in a leadership position, as a tenured professor in a leading economics department or in an institution that produces research relevant to the Bank’s development mandate. S/he will demonstrate willingness to engage in global policy debates concerning economic and social development, and to mobilize the Bank’s research resources to that end. S/he will also demonstrate the ability to link research with policy. And s/he will have a good understanding of the role of the private sector in development.

Proven Record of Academic Achievement: S/he will have numerous publications in top economics journals, and participation on editorial boards of general or development economics journals. S/he will have a talent for explaining economics to non-economists, and s/he will have effectively influenced others through analytical work.Internal collaboration skills: S/he will demonstrate the ability to operate in a matrixed, highly collaborative and global institution.

External recognition: S/he will have achieved visibility as an internationally recognized scholar in a field of economics related to international development.

High level of cultural competency: The Bank is characterized as a multi-cultural institution. The leadership team originates from all corners of the world and has a diverse set of backgrounds, from academia and strategy consulting to government and aid organizations. The Bank is committed to building diverse leadership teams.

The World Bank Group is committed to achieving diversity in terms of gender, nationality, culture and educational background. Individuals with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence.

Call for Papers - Deadline: 23 April 2018 (Monday)

China Economics Summer Institute (CESI) 17 – 19 August 2018

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

The 11th China Economics Summer Institute (CESI) will take place between 17 – 19 August 2018 at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (working papers of previous CESI workshops available at http://cesi.econ.cuhk.edu.hk/). The objective of CESI is to create a network and community of top level scholars working on Chinese economic development. This initiative is currently co-sponsored by the Chinese University of Hong Kong – Tsinghua University Joint Research Center for Chinese Economy, the Institute for Emerging Market Studies at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University and the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University. The Summer Institute is organized in collaboration with the BREAD, NBER and CEPR networks of academic economists.

This call invites you to submit a paper or express your interest in attending the above Summer Institute, which will be hosted this year by the Chinese University of Hong Kong between 17 – 19 August 2018. The workshop intends to bring together the best scholars working on China in China, the US and Europe with other top level scholars who have an interest in working on China in the future. We welcome applications not only from those who want to present their research on China but also from anybody who has an interest in doing serious economic research on China and would like to use the workshop as means of exploring this possibility.

The Summer Institute will bring together between 20 and 30 participants for a period of three days. During the workshop, there will be seminar presentations and free time to allow scholars to interact and explore the possibility of doing joint research projects. Senior scholars who will attend will be available for consultations with junior scholars. Afternoon sessions will give the opportunity to a select group of young scholars and Ph.D students to present their work.

We can cover economy apex travel and accommodation costs for selected paper presenters and participants. Please indicate when you reply whether you will require this funding or whether you will be able to cover your own travel costs. Please note that it will not be possible to accept all applications to attend this Summer Institute. At the moment, funding is available for travel and accommodation expenses in accordance with standard guidelines (economy apex travel) but, where possible, it is hoped that some of the selected participants will use grants at their disposal to cover expenses and thereby free up space for others.

If you need further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.

The workshop is intended for PhD students, post‐docs and junior faculty members. The aim is to provide young researchers with mentoring as well as with exposure to cutting‐edge empirical and theoretical research in development economics. Participants will have the opportunity to present their own research projects and to discuss them with leading researchers in a relaxed and constructive atmosphere.

Structure

The workshop will include presentations of both completed research papers and work‐in‐progress, both empirical and theoretical. The number of participants will be limited to about 60. About 15 will be selected for a forty-five minutes presentation, thus allowing for in‐depth discussion of each contribution. About 15-20 papers will be selected for a poster session that will be in place for the whole duration of the conference. Presentations by graduate students, post‐docs and other junior researchers who have recently acquired their PhD will be key components of the workshop. Applicants can submit either a complete paper or a detailed and well‐developed research proposal. We particularly welcome the submission of work‐in‐progress proposals that describe on‐going and promising research, likely to benefit from an open discussion about the main conceptual and methodological problems related to the project. Please note that participants are expected to attend the entire conference. Participants who do not wish to present a paper are also welcome.

Applications can be submitted at http://dse.univr.it/ssdev/, starting from February 1, 2018.The application should be submitted no later than April 19, 2018.

Participants who wish to present a paper should

a) Complete the application form on the conference web site

b) Submit a short CV (pdf file)

c) Upload, no later than April 19th, the complete paper (pdf file) or a detailed and well‐developed research proposal (pdf file).

Acceptance decision will be announced by May 7, 2018. All applicants will be informed by email about the results.

Prospective participants who are interested in attending the workshop but do not intend to present a paper are required to fill in the application form only.

Logistics, Accommodation and Fees

Graduate students and post‐docs will be asked to pay a registration fee of €450, while faculty will be asked to pay a fee of €600. The fee should be paid no later than May 28, 2018. The fee will cover the costs of meals and lodging in double or triple room for the duration of the workshop (arrival 18th June 2018 - departure 22st June 2018), but participants have to cover their travel expenses.

The Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) is pleased to announce that the 35th BREAD Conference on Development Economics will be hosted by Columbia University in New York, Friday May 11 – Saturday May 12, 2018.

We invite submissions from interested researchers on any topic within the area of Development Economics. The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2018. Only full-length papers will be considered. Please send your paper to BREAD@unibocconi.it.

All papers presented at the conference will be selected through this open submissions process. Please note that there will be time for only a small number of presentations. The conference lasts about a day and a half; there are no parallel sessions.

The French Development Agency (AFD) Research Department, the World Bank Development Research Group (DECRG) and the Stanford Center on Global Poverty and Development at Stanford University are jointly organizing the 11th International Conference on “Migration and Development”. The conference is devoted to investigating ways in which international migration affects economic and social change in developing countries. Possible topics include the effects of migration on poverty, inequality, and human capital formation; social networks and migration; diaspora externalities; remittances; brain drain; migration and institutional/technological/demographic change, today and in the past.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Paola Giuliano (UCLA)

Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown University)

Submission guidelines and timetable: submissions of full papers (pdf file name should begin with submitting author last name) are expected by February 15, 2018. Submissions should be sent via online form at https://globalpoverty.stanford.edu/call-papers-migration-and-development...Decisions will be communicated by March 15, 2018. Travel (economy class) and accommodation in Stanford for up to three nights will be covered for chosen participants.

The Barcelona GSE organizes the Sixth Barcelona GSE Summer Forum. The Summer Forum is a series of independent workshops that cover the main fields of Economics. The Summer Forum 2018 will take place from June 11 to June 22, 2018 in a new venue in central Barcelona (Casa Convalescència).

The workshop will run for 2 days and will take place on June 14-15,2018. This workshop aims at being a showcase of recent outstanding contributions in micro Development Economics, and at creating an annual meeting of top researchers in this field in the framework of the Barcelona GSE Summer Forum. Both empirical and theoretical contributions are encouraged.

The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2018. To submit a paper, please use this link https://app-summerforum.barcelonagse.eu. Submissions should include either a full paper or an extended abstract with the main results. Authors chosen to present papers will be notified approximately by mid-March. A preliminary program will be announced by mid-April.

The Barcelona Summer Forum is a series of independent workshops. When you submit your paper, you will be able to see the topics and dates of other workshops that will take place within the Summer Forum. The same paper cannot be submitted to more than one workshop but you are welcome to submit a different paper to another workshop. The acceptance of the paper is conditional on the submitting author attending the conference for its full two-day duration. Limited funding will be available to partially cover travel and accommodation costs for speakers who lack alternative funding sources.

The Barcelona GSE Summer Forum is one of the activities supported by the Severo Ochoa Program of Centers of Excellence (SEV-2015-0563). Funding for the AMD workshop is also gratefully acknowledge from the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad of the Spanish Government (grant ECO2015-69869-R) and the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union (grant PCIG14-GA-2013-631510).

This conference, organized in partnership with the World Bank, will take place on June 12–15, 2018 in Washington DC. It will serve as a multidisciplinary forum to facilitate interactions between leading academics, World Bank staff, policymakers, government experts, civil society organizations, private-sector representatives, and representatives of other international organizations, and to showcase the present frontier knowledge on these issues.

The conference will be organized with contributed papers, organized sessions, and lightning talks. We highly encourage participation from the private sector to showcase their innovative products and bring real-world perspectives to the discussions of the nature and consequences of innovations in the value chain for farm-based food, fuel, and fiber products.

The welcome drink will take place in the afternoon of June 12 at the World Bank, and the conference reception will be held on Thursday, June 14 at the Italian Embassy in Washington DC. The conference will end in the afternoon of June 15.

The 2018 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America will be held Thursday, April 26 through Saturday, April 28 in Denver, CO. The Economic Demography Workshop (EDW) will take place from 1-6 pm on the afternoon before the main PAA meeting (Wednesday, April 25, 2018). The Workshop provides an opportunity for the detailed presentation of 5-7 research papers on topics in economic demography.

Additional information about the Economic Demography Workshop can be obtained on the EDW website (http://www.edworkshop.umd.edu) or from program chair Delia Furtado (University of Connecticut) (Delia.Furtado@uconn.edu). Other members of this year’s program committee are: Jeanne Lafortune (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), Jason Lindo (Texas A&M), Sam Schulhofer-Wohl (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago), and Almudena Sevilla (Queen Mary University of London).

Please forward this announcement to other interested economic demographers. If you are not on our mailing list, and wish to receive the annual call for papers and completed program by email, send an email to Delia Furtado at Delia.Furtado@uconn.edu with subject header "EDW subscribe."

Request for Proposals

The Center for Effective Global Action is pleased to announce the release a Request for Proposals (RFP) from Economic Development & Institutions (EDI), a research programme supported by UK Aid from the British people.

For this round, EDI expects to make multiple awards for both full-scale RCTs (no funding limit, but most awards up to £600,000) and pilot studies (up to £22,000 per study).

We are looking for evaluations testing one or more of the following strategies to improve the effectiveness, accountability, and/or inclusiveness of public institutions in developing countries and ultimately support economic development, including private sector development:

A required pre-proposal form (a five-minute, basic expression of interest) must be submitted online by 5PM U.S. Pacific Time on Tuesday, October 17 at EDI pre-proposal form

Application materials must be emailed to edi@berkeley.edu by 5PM U.S. Pacific Time on Tuesday November 15, 2017.

Researchers from any institution are eligible to apply. Graduate students who have a senior researcher on their thesis committee are invited to apply for pilot funding, although they must have this faculty member also serve as a PI on the proposal.

Please refer to the RFA materials linked above for details, and feel free to reach out to our team at edi@berkeley.edu if you have further questions.

The National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER) Development Economics Program (DEV) and the Bureau for Research in the Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) are pleased to announce their joint Fall 2017 meeting which will be held in Cambridge, MA, on 8-9 December, 2017.

You are invited to submit your research for presentation at the conference. The deadline for submissions is 6 am EST on Friday, 29 September. Only completed papers will be considered for the program. Please submit your papers at: http://papers.nber.org/confsubmit/backend/cfp?id=DEVf17 .

The program will be selected by Ray Fisman, Penny Goldberg, Rema Hanna, Michael Kremer and Duncan Thomas. All papers presented at the conference will be selected through this open submissions process. The conference will last about a day and a half, there will be no parallel sessions and presentations will follow a standard seminar format. There will not be formal discussants but there will be ample time for discussion of the research during the presentations. As a result, there will only be a small number of presentations.

Travel and hotel expenses will be covered for one author per paper that is presented at the conference, for members of the NBER Development Economics program and for BREAD Fellows. All reimbursements will follow NBER travel reimbursement guidelines.

Call for Papers

NEUDC Conference

November 4th-5th, 2017

- Deadline: August 18th 2017 -

Tufts will be hosting the 2017 NEUDC (Northeast Universities Development Consortium) Conference on November 4th and 5th, 2017.

The final date for submitting a paper is August 18th 2017. Only full drafts of papers will be considered. Please submit a paper with an abstract not exceeding 300 words for this deadline. We will send out notifications by late September informing people of acceptance and rejection decisions.

Those attending the meeting will be charged a registration fee of $200 (for students there will be a special rate of $100) for timely registrations. The registration will include breakfast, lunches, coffee and Saturday’s conference reception. The speakers will have to bear their own expense for travel and accommodation.

The 10th China Economics Summer Institute (CESI) will take place between 14 – 16 August 2017 at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China (working papers of previous CESI workshops available at http://chinasummerinstitute.org). The objective of CESI is to create a network and community of top level scholars working on Chinese economic development. This initiative is currently co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Institute for Emerging Market Studies at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University and the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University.

This call invites you to submit a paper or express your interest in attending the above Summer Institute, which will be hosted this year by the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University between 14 – 16 August 2017. The workshop intends to bring together the best scholars working on China in China, the US and Europe with other top level scholars who have an interest in working on China in the future. We welcome applications not only from those who want to present their research on China but also from anybody who has an interest in doing serious economic research on China and would like to use the workshop as means of exploring this possibility.

The Summer Institute will bring together between 20 and 30 participants for a period of three days. During the workshop, there will be seminar presentations and free time to allow scholars to interact and explore the possibility of doing joint research projects. Senior scholars who will attend will be available for consultations with junior scholars. Afternoon sessions will give the opportunity to a select group of young scholars and Ph. D students to present their work.

We can cover economy apex travel and accommodation costs for selected paper presenters and participants. Please indicate when you reply whether you will require this funding or whether you will be able to cover your own travel costs. Please note that it will not be possible to accept all applications to attend this Summer Institute. At the moment, funding is available for travel and accommodation expenses in accordance with standard guidelines (economy apex travel) but, where possible, it is hoped that some of the selected participants will use grants at their disposal to cover expenses and thereby free up space for others.

If you need further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.

We would like to invite you to submit a paper to the workshop: ADVANCES IN MICRO DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS. The workshop will run for 2 days and will take place on June 15-16, 2017 in Barcelona. This workshop aims at being a showcase of recent outstanding contributions in micro Development Economics, and at creating an annual meeting of top researchers in this field in the framework of the Barcelona GSE Summer Forum. Both empirical and theoretical contributions are encouraged.

The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2017. To submit a paper, please use this link https://app-summerforum.barcelonagse.eu. Submissions should include either a full paper or an extended abstract with the main results. Authors chosen to present papers will be notified approximately by mid-March. A preliminary program will be announced by mid-April.

The Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) is pleased to announce that the 33rd BREAD Conference on Development Economics will be hosted by Stanford University in Palo Alto, Friday May 12 – Saturday May 13, 2017.

We invite submissions from interested researchers on any topic within the area of Development Economics. The deadline for submissions is Friday February 10, 2017. Only full-length papers will be considered. Please send your paper toBREAD@unibocconi.it

All papers presented at the conference will be selected through this open submissions process. Please note that there will be time for only a small number of presentations. The conference lasts about a day and a half; there are no parallel sessions.

This year BREAD will also host a panel on “Getting published in development economics" featuring Esther Duflo (MIT), Penny Goldberg (Yale), Imran Rasul (University College London) and Debraj Ray (NYU) on Friday, May 12 2017 from 6-7:30pm.

Evidence Action Beta is looking for ambitious researchers whose work or insights could benefit millions of people living in poverty, and who want to participate in seeing their research turned into viable, scaled up programs.

For instance, we are collaborating with Dr. Mushfiq Mobarak at Yale University to scale up "No Lean Season," an innovative intervention focused on reducing seasonal rural poverty through migration incentives.

We are writing to invite you to submit your research for consideration for the Development Economics program meeting during the NBER's Summer Institute in Cambridge, MA. The meeting will be from lunchtime on Sunday July 23 through lunchtime on Tuesday July 25, 2017program.

Only complete papers will be considered and preference will be given to papers not previously presented at a NBER or BREAD meeting. We plan to have nine papers presented with a discussant following each presentation as well as time for further discussion of the work.

Please forward this call for papers to colleagues who may have a paper suitable for the program. Unfortunately, it will not be possible invite everyone who receives this call for papers or everyone who submits a paper. Invitations to the meeting and logistical information will be distributed in late April. If you have any questions or need additional information please contact Rob Shannon in the NBER's Conference Department at 617/868-3900 or rshannon@nber.org.

ThReD

Theoretical Research in Development Economics

CALL FOR PAPERS: 2017 THRED CONFERENCE

We are pleased to announce that the 2017 edition of the annual ThReD conference will be sponsored by the University of Warwickand held on its new London Campusin King’s Cross on June 23 and 24, 2017. We are issuing an open call for papers for this conference. Papers should be submitted by Friday, January 27, 2017.

Approximately a dozen papers will be selected for presentation by the Organizing Committee, which consists of Debraj Ray (chair), Sharun Mukand, Patrick Francois, and Garance Genicot. Decisions will be made by March 1st. The local organizers aim to cover the travel and local expenses of at least one presenter for each selected paper.

ThReD is dedicated to theoretical research and its relation to empirical analysis in development economics. ThReD has organized conferences on at least annual basis (see http://thred.devecon.org/conferences.htmlfor a list of past events).

Instructions for Submission

To submit your paper for consideration for the ThReD conference, please take the following steps. You will need a free account with theConference Maker service. If you do not have an account, you may sign up for an account on the website (see below).

If you already have a Conference Maker user account, enter your username and password for this service. If you do not have a Conference Maker account or if you have forgotten your login information, look for a link at the bottom of the page that will allow you to sign up for an account and/or retrieve your existing login information.

Once you have logged into the Conference Maker page for the ThReD conference, you will see a toolbar labeled “Main Menu” on the left of the page. Click the first link under the “Papers” heading to “Submit a Paper.”

Enter your paper information into the submission form, including the paper title and an abstract. Submit the paper itself either by uploading a PDF of the document using the “Choose File” button, or entering the exact URL of an Internet copy of the PDF. Please be sure to provide the exact URL of the paper itself to that the paper will be automatically uploaded into the Conference Maker system. We request that all papers be submitted in a readable PDF format if possible. The submission page provides a link to guidelines on producing readable PDFs for submission.

Press "submit" to submit your paper for consideration. It may take a minute for everything to upload. You should receive e-mail confirmation that your submission was successfully received.

The Navarra Center for International Development - VI Research Workshop will take place on May 8th-9th 2017 at Fundación Ramón Areces, Madrid, Spain.

The workshop is organized in the form of presentations of research papers in Development Economics from both a micro and macro perspective. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome. Each presentation will be followed by a discussion.

Keynote Speaker:Stefan Dercon, Professor of Economic Policy at Blavatnik School of Government and Director of Centre for the Study of African Economics (University of Oxford).

Other confirmed speakers:Pramila Krishnan, University Senior Lecturer and Development Economics Researcher at the Faculty of Economics (University of Cambridge) and Alessandro Tarozzi, Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Business (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).

Please submit your paper through our websitebefore 15th of February 2017 (by 12pm CET). Only one submission per author will be considered. Decisions of acceptance or rejection will be sent out no later than February 28th, 2017.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at ncid@unav.es

We are pleased to announce that the 2017 Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries (SEEDEC) will be held at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK on 20 and 21 April 2017

The aim of the conference is to bring together the community of scholars who employ laboratory experimental economics methods for research in developing countries. Keynote speakers are Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi University) and Macartan Humphreys (Columbia University). The conference will consist of plenary and parallel sessions.

Submissions are invited for papers that reflect SEEDEC’s broad research agenda which includes studies involving lab experiments in the field (in contrast to focusing on the randomized evaluations that have become widespread in development economics in recent years). The choice of papers will be based on full paper submissions, which should be submitted via the online formby January 22, 2017. Successful applicants will be notified by February 22, 2017. Participants are expected to cover their travel and accommodation. For further information, please visit seedec2017.wordpress.com or contact us at seedec2017@uea.ac.uk. We are looking forward to meeting you at UEA in April!

AFD, the World Bank and CERDI are jointly organizing the 10th International Conference on “Migration and Development”. The conference is devoted to investigating ways in which international migration affects economic and social change in developing countries.

The SIEPR Postdoctoral Fellows program provides support for leading researchers who expect to receive their Ph.D. in Spring 2017 to visit Stanford for one to two years after their Ph.D.

The SIEPR Visiting Fellows program provides support for junior faculty with strong publication records to spend a sabbatical year at Stanford. Both programs are designed to facilitate rich interactions with a broad set of economists and social scientists at Stanford and provide state-of-the-art facilities and resources for research.

Those interested in applying for the 2017-18 academic year are encouraged to submit an application by September 1, 2016 for the Visiting Fellows program and December 1, 2016 for the Postdoctoral Fellows program. Applications received after these dates will be considered on a rolling basis until the positions are filled. More information about the program, including application requirements, is available at http://siepr.stanford.edu/scholars/young-scholars.

Call for papers: NBER DEV Fall 2016 program meeting

9-10 December, Cambridge, MA

Deadline for submissions: 6am EST, Monday 3 October

You are invited to submit your research for presentation at the National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER) Development Economics Fall program meeting which will be held in Cambridge, MA, on 9-10 December. The deadline for submissions is 6 am EST on Monday, 3 October. Only completed papers will be considered for the program. Please submit your papers at http://papers.nber.org/confsubmit/backend/cfp?id=DEVf16 . The program will be selected by Esther Duflo, Rick Hornbeck, Rohini Pande, Erik Verhoogen and Duncan Thomas.

All papers presented at the conference will be selected through this open submissions process. Please note that there will be time for only a very small number of presentations. The conference lasts about a day and a half, there are no parallel sessions. There will not be formal discussants but ample time will be allowed for discussion of the research during the presentations. Travel and hotel expenses will be covered for one author per paper that is presented at the conference following NBER travel reimbursement guidelines.

The annual conference brings together international scholars and researchers of development economics and neighboring fields. Plenary sessions with keynote speakers, parallel sessions with contributed papers, and a poster session (with two discussants for all posters) will reflect the current state of research in development economics and provide a forum for exchange for researchers and practitioners. Interested contributors are invited to fill a submission form on www.entwicklungsoekonomischer-ausschuss.de and upload their full paper before February 15th. Acceptance notes with detailed information will be sent by early April 2017. The conference will start in the afternoon of June 1, 2017. There will be a conference fee of Euro 50. We will provide child care services for children from 6 weeks to 12 years old during all conference sessions and events.

I am pleased to announce that the 32nd BREAD Conference on Development Economics will be hosted by Bocconi University in Milan on Friday 30 September and Saturday 1 October, 2016. This conference is co-sponsored by CEPR and PODER.

We invite submissions from interested researchers on any topic within the area of Development Economics. The deadline for submission is Friday 15 July 2016. Only full-length papers will be considered.

A pre-conference session will also be arranged for BREAD Affiliates and PODER fellows to present their work. Please use the same submission process (mentioning “Pre-Conference” in your application) if you would like your work to be considered for this part of the conference.

All papers presented at the conference will be selected through this open submissions process. Please note that there will be time for only a small number of presentations. The conference lasts about a day and a half; there are no parallel sessions.

The Scientific Organizers of the Conference are David Atkin (MIT and CEPR), Oriana Bandiera (LSE and CEPR), Selim Gulesci (Bocconi University), Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi University and CEPR).

Best Regards,

Eliana La Ferrara

Conference: The Early Years: Child Well-Being and the Role of Public Policy

Following the 2015 Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) flagship publication of 2015, "The Early Years: Child Well-Being and the Role of Public Policy", the Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policy (EDePo) at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and the IDB are organizing an academic conference on the themes covered extending the scope to experiences in developing, middle income and developed countries. The focus of the conference will be on lessons that can be learned from the literature on the early years, their long term consequences, and the potential role for policy.Speakers include:

John Lawrence Aber (Professor of Applied Psychology and Public Policy, NYU)Orazio Attanasio (Jeremy Bentham Professor of Economics, University College London, IFS Research Director, EDePo at IFS Programme Director)Jere Behrman (University of Pennsylvania)Janet Currie (Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs; Director of the Center for Health and Well-Being; Princeton University)Sally Grantham-McGregor (Emeritus Professor of International Child Health, University College London)Costas Meghir (Douglas A Warner III Professor of Economics, Yale University)Hiro Yoshikawa (Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education, New York University)

This event is free to attend however we please ask that you register your details via the online booking form.

Post-doc position: IGC, Warwick

Joint with IGC, Warwick is looking to appoint a one or two year post-doc to develop IGC projects (as both PI and or Co-PI) in Myanmar. The position offers generous research fund support and light duties. The post holder is expected to spend significant amount of time in Myanmar. For questions, please e-mail r.macchiavello@warwick.ac.uk The link to apply is here.

How Much Is One American Worth? Public Opinion toward Globalization

Tuesday, May 10, 2016| 4:15 PM

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA

Lecture by Diana C. Mutz, Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Communication and Political Science at the Annenberg School for Communication and the Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania

Economic globalization remains extremely controversial in the United States and elsewhere. Nonetheless, opinions do not fall along recognizable partisan lines. In her current research, Mutz uses surveys and experimental designs to explore the psychological, political, economic, and philosophical underpinnings of American attitudes toward globalization policies, such as international trade and outsourcing.

Mutz finds that trade attitudes have more to do with peoples’ attitudes toward the value of cooperation versus competition and on general sentiment toward citizens of other countries. This evidence highlights Americans’ differential valuation of human lives.

The event is free and open to the public. We encourage you to share this invitation with people you know who may be interested in attending this event.

CALL FOR PAPERS

For a Conference on

Equity and Development: Ten Years On

Washington, DC (USA), October 20-21, 2016

The World Bank’s World Development Report 2006 on Equity and Development placed a concern with social justice and combating inequality at the center of the development paradigm. In the ten years since, inequality has become even more central to both academic inquiry and policy debates, in developed and developing countries alike. Research into top incomes; global inequality; inequality of opportunity; and economic mobility, to name only a few topics, has made much progress since 2006.

This conference, jointly sponsored by the World Bank’s Development Research Group and Poverty and Equity Global Practice, will revisit the main premises and conclusions of the WDR 2006 in the light of recent experience and new findings. It will also explore the key developments in the field during the decade since its publication, and their implications for both policy and further inquiry. The one and a half day conference will be held at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, DC, in an all-plenary format.

Research papers are now invited on relevant topics, including (but not limited to) the following:

Full papers should be submitted in pdf format by Friday, June 17, 2016. Submissions should be emailed to wdr2006anniversary@worldbank.org, and will be considered by a program committee including Francisco Ferreira, Jed Friedman, Christoph Lakner, Luís Felipe López-Calva and Berk Özler. Authors of accepted papers will be contacted by Friday, July 22, 2016. Limited funds to support travel and accommodation expenses for a single presenter per successful paper may be available

23 PhD Scholarships

Doctoral School of Social Sciences – University of Trento

The University of Trento is now inviting applications from qualified candidates for 23 PhD Scholarships in its three PhD programmes:

PhD programme in Economics and Management (6 scholarships)

The programme focuses on the fields of decision sciences, organization, human and natural resource management with special attention to methodologies used in a behavioural approach to economic studies. Such an approach is increasingly adopted to generate predictions about market dynamics, particularly in the fields of finance, natural resources and tourism, and consumption, as well as to design organizations and institutions. Particular emphasis will be given to research proposals on the following subjects:

The emergence of disruptive technological innovation in the financial sector: Impact on bank business models and the regulatory framework (see details here)

PhD programme in Development Economics and Local Systems (7 scholarships) – a jointly PhD programme with the University of Florence

The PhD Programme aims to develop the following knowledge and skills:

Research and training activities in applied economics both in academics and at firms level, systems of firms, public and private research centers, and international, national and non – governmental organizations

Impact analysis of policies and evaluation/management of programmes and projects

The PhD Programme is organized in two curricula:

Development Economics

Economics of Local Systems

Both curricula need a good knowledge of the economic and behavioural dynamics both in developed and developing economies.

PhD programme in Sociology and Social Research (10 scholarships)

The programme provides state-of-the-art research training and teaches advanced professional skills in sociology and social research. Besides providing a solid foundation in the disciplines, including a broad range of quantitative and qualitative methods, the Programme places strong emphasis on theoretically driven empirical sociology.

Application Deadline: May 18, 2016 - 4 p.m. (Italian time)

All programmes are full time and will be taught in English by members of the university’s multi-national faculty. No tuition fees are charged and the scholarships are adequate to cover living expenses in Trento.

The Financial Inclusion Program at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) invites Expressions of Interest (EOI) from teams of researchers and financial service providers to conduct rigorous research on financial product innovations for low income households in developing countries.

This call for Expressions of Interest (EOIs) marks the second competitive funding round of a four-year, $4.1 million investment in project funding to support randomized evaluations in the following areas:

Testing cash transfers and graduations programs which connect people to digital channels

Addressing the specific needs and cash-flow challenges of farmers and micro-entrepreneurs

Improving take-up and usage of formal financial services by the poor through product design, regulation, or other policy levers

Incorporating behavioral insights into financial product design

Expressions of Interest shall present a rigorous study design for a randomized evaluation with a clear hypothesis. Funding requests up to $300,000 will be accepted under this call. Please review the guidelines for more information about this opportunity and to connect with IPA.

We invite those with contributions to the topic to submit their papers. We particularly seek participants from a variety of institutions and those researchers beginning their careers. There is a limited budget to help with travel costs.

This workshop will bring together researchers working on economic development from both an empirical and theoretical perspective. Specifically, this year we will focus on self-selection. Self-selection is omnipresent as both a concern (from the econometrician’s standpoint) and a fundamental object of interest in both empirical and theoretical studies of development policies. For example, it is now well established that there is massive self-selection into credit markets (even after the introduction of microcredit) and understanding why self-selection is so stringent remains an open question. Likewise understanding what drives some individuals or firms to adopt new technologies (or change behavior) faster than others remains of fundamental importance. We welcome submissions that broadly approach this issue.

Edward Miguel, Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley

Invitation to submit:We are looking for contributions on the broad theme of economic development in Africa. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: mobile money and financial innovation; natural resource management; the quality of education and health; migration, remittances and the brain drain; the quality of public services and political economy; or entrepreneurship and management practices in the African context.

Submission timetable:Submissions of full papers (PDF files) are expected by April 4, 2016. Extended abstracts may also be submitted but priority will be given to full papers. Decisions will be made by April 14, 2016.

Call for participation

Deadline: 15th of April, 2016

3rd PODER Summer School

"New Data in Development Economics"

27-30 June, University of Namur

Main Speakers

Emily Breza (Columbia),

Marcel Fafchamps (Stanford),

Mariaflavia Harari (MIT),

Henrik Kleven (LSE),

Renaud Lambiotte (UNamur)

General Description

The summer school is intended for PhD students, post-docs and junior faculty members. The aim is to provide young researchers with an overview of new data in development and methods for analyzing them. Participants will also have the opportunity to discuss their own research projects with leading researchers in a relaxed and open atmosphere, and receive advice and feedback.

Structure

The main components will be lectures by leading researchers and participants’ presentations.

Lecture topics include social networks and development, issues in network data, spatial methods in development economics, taxation and development: what can be learned from large administrative data sets and mining large-scale social networks.

Selected projects by participants will be presented and discussed during the day. We encourage all participants to submit either complete papers or detailed proposals that present empirical evidence on a development question.

Logistics

PODER Researchers who have an ITN contract at the time of the Summer School should pay for their travel directly and send the reimbursement claim to their host institution. For these researchers, accommodation will be covered by the network coordinator, Bocconi University.

Other students will be considered for full or partial funding, although neither can be guaranteed in advance. Please indicate in your application form whether you would require full, partial, or no funding in order to participate.

All participants are asked to stay for the entire duration of the Summer School.

Applications and deadlines

A completed application form (attached) should be submitted together with:

a) A short CV

b) An academic reference letter

c) An empirical research project or a completed paper (only in pdf)

All applications should be sent no later than April 15, 2016 to Chloe Smith: csmith@cepr.org.

Admission decisions will be announced by the May 1, 2016. All applicants will be informed by email about the results.

We are pleased to announce the 16th Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty will be held at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, D.C., from March 23 – 26, 2015. The conference theme will be "Linking Land Tenure and Use for Shared Prosperity.”

We invite the submission of 800 to 1,500 word abstracts on ten thematic areas which are outlined in the attached file. A technical committee will base their reviews and acceptance of submitted papers on the innovative nature, policy relevance, and contribution to the literature and general body of knowledge of the paper.

We encourage you to disseminate this call widely to your networks. More information on the conference is available in the attached file and on the 2015 conference website. Your contributions may be submitted through this link.

This year, we are pleased to offer new and exciting sessions to the conference: an innovation fair and hands- on classes. The innovation fair on March 26 will feature how innovations in technology and open data can help improve land governance at scale, and will encourage hands on interaction for participants looking for solutions to the land challenges of the post-2015 Development Agenda. A post-conference learning day on March 27 will offer hands-on classes to familiarize participants with cutting edge tools and techniques developed to help policy makers.

Important Dates: • Online submission of individual abstracts: October 31, 2014 • Notification of acceptance: December 1, 2014 • Registration deadline for conference: December 31, 2014 • Submission of full paper with a 200 word summary: January 31, 2015

We look forward to a large number of submissions and a very stimulating event.

CEGA and BCRN are pleased to announce the first Conference on Behavioral Health Economics, to be held November 14 at UC Berkeley. This one-day meeting will feature presentations and discussions of 6-8 in-progress and completed papers at the intersection of behavioral economics and health, and a keynote address from Anna Fruttero, lead author of the World Bank's 2015 World Development Report, Mind and Society.

To submit a paper:Submit your paper (or long abstract for works in progress) at https://cega.submittable.com/submit/33417 by midnight Pacific time on Sunday, October 5. Submissions should clearly indicate the relevance of behavioral economics. Any health issues in any geographic region will be considered.

To attend the meeting:Registration is required at http://tinyurl.com/behealth2014. Travel funds may be available for those accepted to present papers (one author per paper). Students may attend if they are nominated by a faculty member. Each faculty member can nominate a student to attend by emailing e.turner@berkeley.edu

The Experimental Social Science Laboratory (X-lab) and the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) at the University of California at Berkeley, and The Choice Lab at NHH Norwegian School of Economics are pleased to announce the 2014 Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries (SEEDEC) to be held from December 10-11 at the Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway.

The aim of the conference is to bring together the community of scholars who employ laboratory experimental economics methods for research in developing countries. Keynote speakers are Oriana Bandiera (London School of Economics) and Gary Charness (University of California, Santa Barbara). The conference will consist of plenary, parallel, and poster sessions. If you plan to attend, please register here.

Submissions are invited for papers that reflect SEEDEC’s broad research agenda which includes studies involving lab experiments in the field (in contrast to focusing on the randomized evaluations that have become widespread in development economics in recent years). The choice of papers will be based on full paper submissions, which should be sent via email by September 15 to thechoicelab@nhh.no. Successful applicants will be notified in by October 11. All participants will have to cover their economy travel and accommodations.

The program will be selected by Seema Jayachandran, Ben Olken and Duncan Thomas. All papers presented at the conference will be selected through this open submissions process. Please note that there will be time for only a very small number of presentations. The conference lasts about a day and a half, there are no parallel sessions, and ample time is allowed for discussion of the research during the presentations. Travel and hotel expenses will be covered for one author per paper that is presented in the conference following NBER travel reimbursement guidelines.

The world has changed radically since the emergence of official development assistance. How should aid change? We want to hear your views: Which financial instruments should be used to provide aid? How should the donor “aid system” be organized? Should aid be given only to the poorest countries? How could aid improve governance? How should recipient countries allocate aid in the context of other sources of financing? What does a data and technology driven transformation in the development project “marketplace” look like?

Up to 20 winning entries chosen by an international jury will receive 20,000 USD each.

The summer school is intended for PhD students, post-docs and junior faculty members. The aim is to provide young researchers with an overview of the application of insights from behavioural and experimental economics to development issues. Participants will also have the opportunity to discuss their own research projects with leading researchers in a relaxed and open atmosphere, and receive advice and feedback.

The Center for the Governance of Natural Resources at University of Colorado Boulder seeks a Research Associate (postdoctoral researcher) to conduct and support interdisciplinary research related to the local governance of two different collective goods in developing countries: forest ecosystems and public health systems. The Research Associate will work under the supervision of Professor Krister Andersson and will help coordinate the data collection campaigns in selected field sites in Latin America, design field protocols, develop data-analysis plans, and train field assistants.

We are looking for colleagues with advanced skills in quantitative analysis, with preference for individuals who have experience in designing and conducting behavioral experiments (e.g. decision-making games) in rural field settings. Proficiency in Spanish is highly desirable.

Organized by Italian Development Economists Association (IDEAS), CELPE - Centre for Research in Labour Economics and Economic Policy of University of Salerno, and Departments of Economics of the Universities of Trento and Verona

The Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE) is organizing a nine-session conference on economic theory. They will pay particular attention to attracting participants from a variety of institutions and to young researchers in the beginning of their careers. There is a limited budget to help with travel costs.

The SITE Summer Workshop is funded by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Standford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR).

J-PAL is hosting on the topic of Improving Take-up and Delivery of Maternal and Child Health Services in Developing Countries.

The conference will take place on Friday, 23 May 2014 at MIT in Cambridge, MA. The goal of this conference is to share evidence from recent randomized evaluations of interventions designed to promote uptake and better delivery of protective health goods and services to improve maternal and child health.

We will accept four [4] papers for presentation in addition to four scheduled presentations that will share findings from studies under a National Institutes of Health P01.

The Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) is pleased to announce the 27th BREAD Conference on Economic Development. The conference will be held at Berkeley, CA, 8-9 May 2014.

We are very grateful to Fred Finan, Paul Gertler and Ted Miguel who have graciously agreed to serve on the scientific committee and select the papers for the program. All papers presented at the conference will be selected through this open submissions process. Please note that there will be time for only a very small number of presentations. The conference lasts about a day and a half, there are no parallel sessions, and ample time is allowed for discussion of the research during the presentations. Reasonable travel and hotel expenses will be covered for one author per paper that is presented in the conference.

We are inviting submissions to the workshop on Advances in Micro Development Economics. This workshop will take place on June 11-12, 2014 in Barcelona, within the general framework of the 2nd Barcelona GSE Summer Forum. Invited Speakers: Pascaline Dupas (Stanford), Fred Finan (Berkeley), Seema Jayachandran (Northwestern), Kaivan Munshi (Cambridge).

Click here for the call for papers and online submission Form. The deadline for submissions is February 16th 2014.

Approximately six papers will be selected for presentation by the Organizing Committee. Travel and local expenses of one presenter for each selected paper will be covered by the local organizers.

The Barcelona Summer Forum is a series of independent workshops. When you submit your paper, you will be able to see the topics and dates of other workshops that will take place within the Summer Forum. You are welcome to submit papers to other workshops. More information can be found on the Summer Forum webpage http://www.barcelonagse.eu/summer-forum.html.

The 2014 ThReD conference will be held at the New Economic School, Moscow, on June 27 and 28, 2014.

ThRed is an organization dedicated to theoretical research in development economics, and its relation to empirical analyses. The Board of ThReD consists of Karl Ove Moene (President), Jean-Marie Baland, Maitreesh Ghatak, Dilip Mookherjee, Andrew Newman and Debraj Ray. ThReD has already organized a number of conferences previously; see the conference page at http://thred.devecon.org/conferences.html. We are issuing an open call for papers for the June 2014 conference. Papers should be submitted by 15 February 2014.

Approximately a dozen papers will be selected for presentation by the Organizing Committee, which consists of Dilip Mookherjee (chair), Jean-Marie Baland, Paul Dower and Maitreesh Ghatak. Decisions will be made by mid-March. Travel and local expenses of one presenter for each selected paper will be covered by the local organizers.

Instructions for Submission

To submit your paper for inclusion in the ThReD conference, please take the following steps.You will need a free account with the Conference Maker service.If you do not have an account, you may sign up for an account on the website (see below).

2.If you already have a Conference Maker user account, enter your username and password for this service.If you do not have a Conference Maker account or if you have forgotten your login information, look for a link at the bottom of the page that will allow you to sign up for an account and/or retrieve your existing login information.

3.Once you have logged into the Conference Maker page for the ThReD conference, you will see a toolbar labeled “Main Menu” on the left of the page.Click the first link under the “Papers” heading to “Submit a Paper.”

4.Enter your paper information into the submission form, including the paper title and an abstract.Submit the paper itself either by uploading a PDF of the document using the “Choose File” button, or entering the exact URL of an Internet copy of the PDF.Please be sure to provide the exact URL of the paper itself so that the paper will be automatically uploaded into the Conference Maker system.We request that all papers be submitted in a readable PDF format if possible.The submission page provides a link to guidelines on producing readable PDFs for submission.

5.Press submit to submit your paper for consideration.It may take a minute for everything to upload.You should receive email confirmation that your submission was successfully received.

Call for Papers Seventh International Conference on MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT International Migration Institute, University of Oxford, June 30 – July 1, 2014.

The French Development Agency (AFD) Research Department, the World Bank Development Research Group (DECRG), the Center for Global Development (CGD) and the International Migration Institute at the University of Oxford are jointly organizing the Seventh International Conference on “Migration and Development”. The conference is devoted to investigating ways in which international migration affects economic and social changes in developing countries. Possible topics include the effects of migration on poverty, inequality, and human capital formation in developing countries, diaspora externalities, remittances, brain drain, migration and institutional/technological change. A selection of papers from the conference will be considered for a special “features” issue of The Economic Journal. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Philippe Fargues, European University Institute David McKenzie, World Bank Giovanni Peri, UC Davis Submission guidelines and timetable: Submissions of full papers (pdf files) are expected by January 5, 2014. Submissions should be sent to migdevconf@qeh.ox.ac.uk. Decisions will be communicated by February 5, 2014. Travel (economy class) and accommodation in Oxford for up to three nights will be covered. Organizing Committee: Cyrille Bellier (AFD), Michael Clemens (CGD), Hein de Haas (IMI Oxford), Çağlar Özden (World Bank), Chris Parsons (IMI Oxford), Hillel Rapoport (Paris School of Economics and Bar-Ilan University), Briony Truscott (IMI Oxford) Scientific Committee: Ran Abramitzky (Stanford), Emmanuelle Auriol (Toulouse), Oliver Bakewell (IMI Oxford), Michel Beine (Luxembourg), Jørgen Carling (Peace Research Institute, Oslo), Michael Clemens (CGD), Patricia Cortes (Boston U), Hein de Haas (IMI Oxford), Frederic Docquier (Louvain), Giovanni Facchini (Nottingham), Hubert Jayet (EQUIPPE, Lille), William Kerr (Harvard Business School), Anna-Maria Mayda (Georgetown), David McKenzie (World Bank), Kaivan Munshi (Cambridge), Çağlar Özden (World Bank), Giovanni Peri (UC Davis), Jean-Philippe Platteau (Oxford), Hillel Rapoport (Chair, Paris School of Economics and Bar-Ilan), Imran Rasul (UCL), Dean Yang (University of Michigan), Yves Zenou (Stockholm).

The 2014 Pacific Conference on Development Economics (PacDev) will be held on Saturday, March 15, 2014 at the University of California, Los Angeles at the Sproul Presidio Commons. The goal of PacDev is to bring together graduate students, faculty and practitioners to present and discuss various issues facing developing economies. The conference website is here. The deadline for submissions is December 2, 2013.

Call for applications PODER Training Network for PhD students

Jean-Marie Baland, Gharad Bryan, Eliana La Ferrara, Karen Macours, Jakob Svensson, Alessandro Tarozzi and Ingrid Woolard are involved in a Marie Curie Initial Training Networks (ITN) funded under the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme. This network is called PODER (Policy Design and Evaluation Research in Developing Countries) and runs through August 31, 2017.

The goal of PODER is to harness and combine intellectual resources which are scattered across Europe to offer doctoral students a first rate training, comparable to the best opportunities available worldwide. All PODER researchers have the opportunity to visit one or more of the following institutions for periods of 6-12 months:

-Bocconi University, Milan -FUNDP, University of Namur -IIES, Stockholm University -London School of Economics -Paris School of Economics -Universitat Pompeu Fabra -University of Cape Town

They can participate in training events (e.g., courses, summer schools and conferences), develop their research projects and collaborate with local faculty.

They can also benefit from internships with the following Associated Partners: EBRD, IPA, MARS, Mathematica, Oxford Policy Management. Among other things, these internships may allow students to gain experience in fieldwork and collect data.

Funding for PODER students is quite generous: the gross salary for students in their first 4 years of doctoral studies is up to euro 38,000 per year (USD 51,600), and for students in their 5th year is up to euro 58,500 per year (USD 79,500). Students planning to do fieldwork can save up some of this salary and use it for data collection.

The 2014 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America will be held Thursday May 1 through Saturday May 3 in Boston, MA. The Economic Demography Workshop (EDW) will take place from 1-6 pm on the afternoon before the main PAA meeting (Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014). The Workshop provides an opportunity for the detailed presentation of 5-7 research papers on topics in economic demography.

You may submit a paper or detailed abstract for consideration by the Program Committee by Friday, December 31, 2013. The Program Committee is Lucie Schmidt (Williams College) (lschmidt@williams.edu) Kasey Buckles (University of Notre Dame), Delia Furtado (University of Connecticut) and Joe Price (Brigham Young University).

Preference will be given to papers not on the main PAA program. The program will be finalized in late January Past programs are on the EDW website which also provides information about the EDW. General information about the PAA is here.

focuses on (i)early childhood nutrition, health, and development; (ii) water supply, sanitation, and hygiene linked to human development outcomes; (iii) basic education service delivery; and (iv) health systems and service delivery.

will be held at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington DC on Mar 31-Apr 3, 2014. The conference theme will be "Integrating Land Governance into the Post-2015 Agenda: Harnessing Synergies for Implementation and Monitoring Impact". Abstracts may be submitted until mid November 2013. See the conference website for more information and submission instructions.

The main purpose of the School is to induce participants to think rigorously, creatively, and in non-conventional ways on various approaches to the modeling of migration choices and consequences, and to demonstrate to the participants how such a thinking process could enrich the spectrum of informed migration policies. Participants will be exposed to the art of economic modeling in general, and to the workings of applied microeconomic theory in particular.

Click here for more information about the Winter School and how to apply.

We will bring together leading economic and evolutionary researchers to explore the nature of conflict and cooperation between the sexes in the areas of mating, fertility, marriage and family life. The conference provides an opportunity for researchers to discuss the economic and evolutionary biology approaches to these issues, explore common ground and identify collaborative opportunities.

The aim of the conference is to bring together the community of scholars who employ laboratory experimental economics methods for research in developing countries. Keynote speakersareCharles Sprenger(Stanford University) and Edward Miguel (UC Berkeley). The conference will consist of plenary, parallel, and poster sessions.

Papers should be submitted via email by September 30th to RanveigFalch at thechoicelab@nhh.no. Preference will be given to full papers. Successful applicants will be notified by October 15. All participants will have to cover their travel andaccommodation.

We also invite you to submit your work for the special issue of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization entitled Economic Experiments in Developing Countries. Guest editors are ShacharKariv, Edward Miguel, Jane Zhang, and BertilTungodden, and the deadline for submission will be February 1st, 2014. Consult the journal website for further details.

IZA and DFID are now accepting applications for funding in Phase III of the Growth and Labor Markets in Low Income Countries (GLM | LIC) program.

After two competitive rounds of funding in Phase I and II, we look forward to receiving many high-quality research proposals again in this final call. It is expected that 10 to 12 projects will be selected for funding.

GLM | LIC Phase III invites applications for research projects in the following areas:

The deadline for applications is October 29, 2013. Please visit glm-lic.iza.org for more information about the program and the call for proposals. The full Call Specifications can be downloaded here.

Projects funded in previous calls cover a wide range of low-income countries and focus on various topics, including the impacts of trade and globalization, evaluation of training programs, the functioning of markets for education and skills, and migration and job search. Descriptions of Phase I projects can be found on the GLM | LIC website, where Phase II projects will be added later this month.

Harvard University will be hosting the 2013 NEUDC (Northeast Universities Development Consortium) Conference on November 2nd and 3rd, 2013.

You are invited to submit a paper for the conference and also to pass the word around among your colleagues and students who may be interested. All papers that investigate topics in economic development broadly defined are welcome. To submit a paper, please do so here. The final date for submitting a paper is August 8th 2013.

Only full drafts of papers will be considered. Please submit a paper with an abstract, not exceeding 300 words, before the August 8th deadline. We will send out notifications by late September informing people of our acceptance or rejection decisions.Those attending the meeting will be charged an advanced registration fee of $200. For students there will be a special discounted rate of $100. The registration will include breakfast, lunches, coffee and Saturday's conference reception. Expenses for travel and accommodation will not be covered by the conference. Further conference details will be posted on the conference web page.If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at neudc_2013@hks.harvard.edu.

The call for papers and panels is here. The deadline for paper submissions is 16 September 2013.

Innovations for Poverty Action Global Financial Inclusion Initiative Call for Expressions of Interest (EOI) - Seeking Submissions for New Research Projects under the GFII Competitive Funds

This Call for EOIs includes both:The Citi IPA Financial Capability Research Fund The Yale Savings and Payments Research Fund

Deadline for EOI Applications: Friday, August 23, 2013

OVERVIEW

The Global Financial Inclusion Fund (GFII) at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) invites Expressions of Interest (EOI) submissions from teams of researchers and practitioners to conduct rigorous research on identifying innovative products and programs that enhance poor households' access to and usage of improved financial tools, products, and services.

The initiative is focused on three key areas of research within the financial inclusion domain:

Savings: The poor can and do save. In fact, saving is critical to households whose income flows do not match their daily consumption needs, much less their need to plan for risks and make investments. GFII studies innovations that help individuals to access savings services, overcome temptation and social demands, and build savings habits, and measures the impact of improved saving on consumption, investment, and risk mitigation.

Payments: The ability to move money from one location to another is key to allowing personal, business, and government transactions to occur. Innovations in payment channels, driven by the widespread use of technologies such as mobile phones, allow the poor to transact in a faster, cheaper, and more secure manner. Our studies measure the impact of these new transaction mechanisms on the welfare of the poor.

Financial Capability: Simply having access to financial products and services is only part of the solution to maintaining a healthy financial portfolio. Individuals must also know how to choose and use the right products based on their specific needs, and know how to balance products and services to optimize sustenance and growth. GFII assesses the effectiveness of various innovative tools designed to help the poor make better decisions on their own financial portfolios.

Harvard University will be hosting the 2013 NEUDC (Northeast Universities Development Consortium) Conference on November 2nd and 3rd, 2013.

We are writing to invite you to submit a paper for the conference and also to pass the word around among your colleagues and students who may be interested. We welcome all papers that investigate topics in economic development broadly defined.

The final date for submitting a paper is August 8th 2013. Only full drafts of papers will be considered. Please submit a paper with an abstract, not exceeding 300 words, before the August 8th deadline. We will send out notifications by late September informing people of our acceptance or rejection decisions.

Those attending the meeting will be charged an advanced registration fee of $200. For students there will be a special discounted rate of $100. The registration will include breakfast, lunches, coffee and Saturday's conference reception. Expenses for travel and accommodation will not be covered by the conference.

9th Annual Workshop of the Households in Conflict Network "The Economics of Genocide, Mass Murder and other Atrocities" November 27-29, 2013, UC Berkeley

The scientific analysis and understanding of human behavior is put at the test when we consider what is probably the worst expression of human behavior: genocide and mass killing. Explanations of this phenomenon have crossed disciplinary and theoretical boundaries including prospect theory and rational choice in economics, relative deprivation in psychology and political science and horizontal inequality in development studies. New insights have been achieved in the cross-country empirical analysis of violent conflict. Recently, the availability of in-country household level data have allowed micro-level inquiry into the causes, functionings and consequences of violent conflict, genocide and mass murder.

We invite empirical papers who increase our understanding of the phenomenon of genocide and mass murder. Political economy and theoretical contributions will also be considered. Papers which illuminate the behavior of people in the institutional context in which they operate are particularly welcome. As in previous workshops, papers who inform us on the micro-economics of violent conflict but do not particularly address the theme of this year are also welcome.

The Key Note Lectures of the workshop will be given by James Robinson (Government, Harvard University), Marta Reynal-Querol (Economics, University of Pompeu Fabra) and Catrien Bijleveld (Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

The 9th Annual Workshop is hosted by Edward Miguel and will take place on the campus of UC Berkeley. The program committee members are Tilman Brück, Patricia Justino, Edward Miguel and Philip Verwimp.

Only scholars whose paper is selected are invited to participate in the workshop. Please consult the program of previous workshops to find out if your paper is the kind of paper we are looking for (www.hicn.org) click 'events'.

Journal editors will be contacted with a view to a later submission of papers for a potential special issue.

. Please send a PDF of your paper as well as a PDF of your CV. Selected authors will be invited by 1 October 2013. There is no registration fee. Participants have to cover their ticket and hotel costs.

Call for papers: 7th Annual Conference on the Political Economy of International Organizations January 16-18, 2014, Princeton University, USA

Submissions are invited for the seventh annual conference on the political economy of international organizations, to be held at Princeton University, USA, on January 16-18, 2014. The conference brings together economists and political scientists to address political-economy issues related to international organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the European Union, and also other international organizations that have as yet received less attention in the academic literature.

Submission of PapersBoth empirical and theoretical papers will be considered. Please submit full papers to conference@peio.me. The deadline for submission is 31 August, 2013. Decisions will be made by 30 September, 2013. This year's special issue of the Review of International Organizations will be focusing on Dispute Settlement in International Organizations, edited by Christina Davis. Please indicate in your submission to the conference whether you are interested in also submitting to the special issue.

Conference Format, Attendance, and RegistrationThe number of participants will be limited to about 70, which allows for in-depth discussion of each paper. Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the entire conference. There is no registration or conference fee. Travel and accommodation are at the expense of participants.

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Young Lives Conference, University of Oxford Inequalities in Children's Outcomes in Developing Countries St Anne's College, Oxford 8-9 July 2013

Young Lives is an international, longitudinal study of childhood poverty that is following 12,000 children in 4 countries for 15 years, from 2002 to 2017. Currently three rounds of data are publicly available for two cohorts of children, one followed from infancy and the other from age 8, in Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh), Peru and Vietnam. Each survey contains an extensive socio-economic component, collecting detailed data on household education, employment, income, consumption and wealth, as well as multidimensional indicators of child well-being including nutrition, schooling, parental involvement and aspirations, psychosocial well-being, children's time-use, cognitive and non-cognitive development, and academic achievement. Young Lives is the largest cross-national cohort study on poverty and child well-being and unique in providing rich comparable longitudinal information across four developing countries, on individual children, their families and the communities in which they live.

A key focus area for Young Lives research is documenting and exploring the mechanisms for the evolution of inequalities in children's outcomes across, inter alia, gender, ethnic group, socio-economic status, and rural-urban residence. The purpose of this conference is to raise awareness of the Young Lives study and bring together economists and other social scientists working on issues relating to the evolution, causes and consequences of childhood inequalities who are using either the Young Lives data or other panel data-sets.

Potential topics of interest include:

What is the extent of inequalities in key indicators of children's human capital and well-being over the child's life-course across, gender, socio-economic status, ethnic group, rural-urban residence, and other dimensions?

How do inequalities evolve and change over the child's life-course?

What are the factors that mitigate/reinforce early inequalities and explain the evolution of inequalities over time?

The organising committee invites submissions of high-quality research papers addressing these and other questions relating to child well-being and development in developing countries. Submissions using the Young Lives data are encouraged, although consideration will also be given to papers using other developing country panel data-sets that address related issues. Researchers wishing to use the Young Lives data can find more information, including how to obtain the data, on the Young Lives website: www.younglives.org.uk.

Plenary speakers

Orazio Attanasio (University College, London)

Jere Behrman (University of Pennsylvania)

Pedro Carneiro (University College, London)

Stefan Dercon (DFID / University of Oxford)

Paul Glewwe (University of Minnesota)

James Heckman (University of Chicago) (tbc)

Costas Meghir (Yale University)

Karthik Muralidharan (University of California, San Diego)

Lant Pritchett (Harvard University)

SubmissionsIf you would like to submit a paper (full papers only; abstracts only will not be considered), please e-mail younglives@younglives.org.uk. In the subject header please put: Submission Young Lives Child Inequalities Conference. If the paper is multiple-authored, please indicate who will present and whether the presenter would be willing to act as a discussant.

Submission deadline: 1 April 2013

AcceptancesNotifications of acceptances will be circulated by 1 May 2013. We regret Young Lives is not able to cover costs of participants. Participants will have the option of booking accommodation at the conference venue (St Anne's College, Oxford) on a first come, first served basis. Funding may be available for presenters from developing countries.

Participant informationThe conference will be held at St Anne's College, Oxford. The conference programme will start on Monday morning (8 July 2013) and end on Tuesday afternoon (9 July 2013). The programme will consist of plenary and parallel sessions. Confirmed plenary speakers are listed above.

Conference: May 31 - June 1, 2013Who should attend? Financial service providers and other financial inclusion practitioners interested in cost-effective, client-based product innovations aimed at improving clients' financial behavior. Register by May 19

Matchmaking Program for Practitioners and Researchers: May 29 - 30, 2013Who should apply? Researchers and practitioners from all over the world interested in developing new research partnerships for the second round of competitive funding for research grants. Apply by April 7

Evidence on Innovations in Savings and Payments Conference and Researcher WorkshopJune 2013 - Kampala, Uganda Savings and Payments Research Fund

Conference: June 24 - 25, 2013Who should attend? Practitioners, policymakers and researchers interested in learning about rigorous evidence on the impact of savings and payments innovations on the lives of the poor in sub-Saharan Africa. Register by June 14

Research Methods Workshop: June 20 - 22, 2013Who should apply? PhD researchers and advanced PhD students from sub-Saharan Africa with demonstrated interest in rigorously evaluating the impact of savings and payments innovations. Apply by May 1

The Barcelona GSE Summer Forum is a series of independent workshops and policy events that cover the main fields of Economics. The objective of the Summer Forum is to bring top research leaders and young promising economists from around the globe to Barcelona to debate the present and future of the frontier of knowledge in Economics.

The 6th China Economics Summer Institute (CESI) will take place in 2013 (Working papers of previous CESI workshops available at http://igov.berkeley.edu/china_workingpapers and at http://chinasummerinstitute.org). The objective of CESI is to create a network and community of top level scholars working on Chinese economic development. This initiative is currently co-sponsored by UC Berkeley Center on Institutions and Governance (with generous funding from the Ford Foundation), the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University, the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University, the Institute for Emerging Market Studies at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and a joint program of the LICOS-Center for Institutions and Economic Performance at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Stanford - CASS REAP (Rural Education Action Program). The Summer Institute is organized in collaboration with the BREAD, NBER and CEPR networks of academic economists.

This call invites you to submit a paper or express your interest in attending the above Summer Institute, which will be hosted this year by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong between August 22d and August 24 2012. The workshop intends to bring together the best scholars working on China in China, the US and Europe with other top level scholars who have an interest in working on China in the future. We welcome applications not only from those who want to present their research on China but also from anybody who has an interest in doing serious economic research on China and would like to use the workshop as means of exploring this possibility.

The Summer Institute will bring together between 20 and 30 participants for a period of three days. During the workshop, there will be seminar presentations and free time to allow scholars to interact and explore the possibility of doing joint research projects. Senior scholars who will attend will be available for consultations with junior scholars. Afternoon sessions will give the opportunity to a select group of young scholars and Ph. D students to present their work. A field trip to Shenzhen might be organized on August 25th for interested participants.

Papers for possible presentation at the meeting or expressions of interest in attending the meeting should be e-mailed to igovcesi2012@gmail.com using the attached form by 18:00 GMT on April 12th, 2013.

We can cover economy apex travel and accommodation costs for selected paper presenters and participants. Please indicate when you reply whether you will require this funding or whether you will be able to cover your own travel costs. Please note that it will not be possible to accept all applications to attend this Summer Institute. At the moment, funding is available for travel and accommodation expenses in accordance with standard guidelines (economy apex travel) but, where possible, it is hoped that some of the selected participants will use grants at their disposal to cover expenses and thereby free up space for others.

If you need further information, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Request for Proposals Editorship of Economic Development and Cultural Change Extended Deadline: November 15, 2012

John Strauss will be stepping down on August 1, 2013 as editor of Economic Development and Cultural Change. The University of Chicago Press is soliciting proposals from leading scholars in development economics to assume the EDCC editorship.

Proposals from prospective editors should be submitted before November 15, 2012 and include the following:

Statement of editorial policy. Considering the research published in EDCC in the past, describe the editorial scope and policies to be pursued under your editorship. This should be a reflective statement that serves to show acquaintance with the important issues confronting development economics and how EDCC will continue to serve the discipline. A statement of up to five pages is requested.

Curriculum vitae. Please enclose a current CV. If you are proposing to edit EDCC with a co-editor or several co-editors as a team, please enclose a CV for each prospective editor.

The five-year renewable term will begin August 1, 2013, with several months prior set aside for an overlap of duties with the outgoing editor to ensure a smooth transition.

The 2013 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America will be held Thursday April 11 through Saturday April 13 in New Orleans, LA. The Economic Demography Workshop (EDW) will take place from 1-6 pm on the afternoon before the main PAA meeting (Wednesday, Apr 10, 2013). The Workshop provides an opportunity for the detailed presentation of 5-7 research papers on topics in economic demography.

Additional information about the Economic Demography Workshop can be obtained on the EDW website (http://www.edworkshop.umd.edu) or from Terra McKinnish (terra.mckinnish@colorado.edu). Other members of this year's programcommittee are: Steven Haider (Michigan State University), Craig McIntosh (University of California-San Diego) and Lucie Schmidt (Williams).

Please forward this announcement to other interested economic demographers. If you are not on our mailing list, and wish to receive the annual call for papers and completed program by email, send an email to Terra McKinnish at mckinnis@colorado.edu with subjected header "EDW subscribe".

The Experimental Social Science Laboratory (X-lab) and the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) at the University of California at Berkeley, and the Choice Lab at NHH Norwegian School of Economics are pleased to announce the 2012 Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries (SEEDEC) to be held from November 29 to November 30 at U.C. Berkeley. The objective of the Symposium is to bring together a community of top scholars who employ laboratory experimental economics methods for research in developing countries. Keynote speakers are Abigail Barr and Sendhil Mullainathan.

Submissions are invited for papers that reflect SEEDEC's broad research agenda which includes studies involving lab experiments in the field (in contrast to focusing on the randomized evaluations that have become widespread in development economics in recent years). The choice of papers will be based on full paper submissions, which should be sent via email by September 30th to Judi Chan at judichan@berkeley.edu. Successful applicants will be notified in October and will be invited to attend the full symposium, and SEEDEC will cover their economy travel and accommodations.

Call for Papers Seventh Annual Research Conference on Population, Reproductive Health and Economic Development The Population and Poverty Research Network (PopPov) January 23 - 26, 2013 Oslo, Norway

Background The Population and Poverty Research Network (PopPov) is a group of academic researchers and funders from around the globe interested in how population dynamics affect economic outcomes. We are investigating how population policies can influence poverty reduction at the household level and economic growth at the country/state level. The Seventh Annual Research Conference on Population, Reproductive Health and Economic Development will take place from January 23 - 26, 2013 in Oslo, Norway. Invited participants will be economics and population researchers, with an emphasis on empirical research about Africa. Selected papers will advance knowledge and/or methodology, addressing the broad themes relevant to the PopPov inquiry into how population dynamics and reproductive health affect economic development (see references below).

Only completed papers, full drafts, and working papers will be considered. Submissions must be sufficiently detailed to allow the steering committee to judge the merits of the research and must include a description of the research objectives, the data and research methods, some preliminary results, and, as appropriate, the policy relevance of the research.

Authors may select only one topical session per submission.

Authors may make a maximum of two submissions.

Deadlines and Important Dates The deadline for all submissions is Tuesday, September 4, 2012. All applicants will be notified about the status of their submission by Friday, October 19, 2012. Only accepted papers may be presented at the conference. No substitutions will be allowed.

Summary of Important Dates:

September 4, 2012: Deadline for submitting completed papers, full drafts, or working papers

October 19, 2012: Applicants are notified of paper acceptance

January 4, 2013: Deadline for presenters to submit completed papers

January 11, 2013: Presenters will be notified of their session title and time

January 18, 2013: Deadline for presenters to submit presentations

Travel Awards Limited travel funds are available to assist current and former PopPov grantees and paper presenters without other sources of travel funding. Priority will be given to individuals with papers accepted for the program (one author), program participants (discussants, committee members), students, and researchers employed in developing country institutions.

We are pleased to announce our FOURTH ROUND of Research Funding for Entrepreneurship and SME Growth.

The goal of the grants is to fund innovative research to build a systemic body of evidence on the contribution of SMEs and entrepreneurship to poverty alleviation and economic development. We hope this competition will have a catalyzing effect to stimulate high quality research on the role of access to finance, human capital, and markets for SME growth and their contribution to development.

First NOVAFRICA Conference on Economic Development in Africa CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline: June 21st, 2012 Lisbon (Portugal), September 7th and 8th, 2012

KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS: Paul Collier, Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) Dean Karlan, Professor of Economics at Yale University and Founder of Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) Roger Myerson, Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and Economics Nobel Prize Winner 2007

Invitation to submit: We look for contributions on the broad theme of economic development in Africa. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: mobile banking and other technological developments to access financial services; natural resource management; the quality of education and health; migration, remittances and the brain drain; the quality of public services and political economy; management practices in the African context; or the challenges of urbanization and infrastructure.

Submission timetable: Submissions of full papers (pdf files) are expected by June 21, 2012. Extended abstracts may also be submitted but priority will be given to full papers. Decisions will be made by June 30, 2012.

Submission guidelines: Please email your submission to Raquel Fernandes at novafrica@novasbe.pt. For additional information, please visit www.novafrica.org. Travel and accommodation expenses will be covered for selected participants in the program.

Academics Stand Against Poverty: One-Year Anniversary Conference Global Poverty: What Do We Know? Where Do We Go From Here? Yale University Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall April 12-13, 2012

Speakers include: Philip Alston, John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, New York University Hugh Evans, CEO of the Global Poverty Project Nicole Hassoun, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University Judith Lichtenberg, Professor of Philosophy, University of Georgetown Branko Milanovic, Lead Economist in the World Bank?s Research Department Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University Gustav Ranis, Frank Altschul Professor Emeritus of International Economics, Yale University Paul Slovic, Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon

We invite researchers, teachers and students with an interest in global poverty alleviation efforts to take part in the one-year anniversary conference of Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP).

April 12th, 9:30am-6pm: The Next Steps for Global Poverty Alleviation This symposium brings together leading experts in development, aid, and global justice in a dialogue about the next steps that should be taken towards global poverty alleviation. The discussion will focus on what should replace the Millennium Development Goals after their expiration in 2015. Speakers will examine the record of increasing global inequality, innovations in development such as large-scale microfinance projects, and poverty measurement and trends. Each will offer crucial insights about what has been learned about reducing severe poverty, and which lessons must be highlighted in any MDG-replacement efforts.

We will also present ASAP's most current work and discuss future directions for the organization.

April 13th, 9am-5pm: Moral Psychology and Poverty Alleviation Experts in ethics and psychology will discuss how cognitive science and moral psychology can help us to more effectively motivate individuals to fulfill their moral obligations to alleviate global poverty. This workshop marks the launch of ASAP's Moral Psychology and Poverty Alleviation project (MPPA), which aims to support sustained collaborative and applicable research on this issue.

Sponsors: The British Council, the Global Justice Program of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Centre for International and Area Studies, the Department of Cognitive Science at Yale University, and the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund.

The Microsavings and Payments Innovation Initiative (MPII) invites Expressions of Interest (EOI) applications to conduct rigorous, field-based research on savings products and services, as well as payments and money transfer channels for the world's poor and financially excluded. EOI submissions for Round 2 are due Friday, May 4, 2012 by 11:59 pm Eastern Daylight Time.

Despite financial inclusion being a top policy priority across developing countries, relatively little is known about the specific factors that enable people to save and transfer money more effectively. Recent years have seen a growth in technological innovations enabling novel products such as mobile money and new channels such as agent banking. Yet, the impact of such innovations on poverty alleviation is still unknown. The Microsavings and Payments Innovation Initiative will fill this gap by building evidence on (1) innovations that most effectively enable improved usage of savings and payments services by the poor (through reduced cost, reduced risk, improved learning, behavioral incentives, regulatory reform, etc.); and (2) the impact that the use of improved savings products and payments channels has on the welfare of the poor.

The Microsavings and Payments Innovation Initiative (MPII) awarded 5 grants in the first round of its competitive research fund. Total funding awarded amounted to $445,000, which will support three randomized evaluations and two diagnostic research projects. Successful applications passed through two stages of evaluation and selection. The first was an Expression of Interest application, for which MPII received 119 applications and invited 27 to submit full proposals. The 22 full proposals submitted were then vetted and evaluated by the MPII Executive Committee.

A total of $826,500 will be awarded in at least two subsequent competitive funding rounds. Applicants must either hold a PhD or be a current PhD candidate in a relevant social science or engineering discipline, such as economics, statistics, sociology, anthropology, public health, education, computer science, etc. They must demonstrate experience in field research. All qualified researchers affiliated with universities, think tanks, and other research institutions from around the world are invited to apply. Research projects focused on Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are encouraged as are applications from researchers based in those regions or from teams with one or more researchers in those regions.

Call for Papers Fifth International Conference on MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT Agence Française de Développement, Paris, June 28-29, 2012

The French Development Agency (AFD) Research Department, the World Bank Development Research Group (DECRG) and the Center for Global Development (CDG) are jointly organizing the Fifth International Conference on "Migration and Development".

The conference is devoted to investigating channels through which international migration affects economic and social outcomes of developing countries. Possible topics include social networks and diaspora externalities, remittances, return migration, migration and the pattern of trade/FDI, brain drain, migration and institutional/technological change, migration and health, and the effect of emigration on poverty, inequality, and human capital formation in developing countries.

Submission guidelines and timetable: Submissions of full papers (pdf files) are expected by March 15, 2012. Submissions should be sent to Mrs Laurence Wunderle at the following address: wunderlel@afd.fr. Decisions will be communicated by April 30, 2012.

Travel (economy class) and accommodation expenses in Paris will be covered for selected participants.

The joint scheme of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Hewlett, USA) and its partnering agencies have an overall aim to contribute to knowledge about the effects of population dynamics and reproductive health on different aspects of economic and social development. Through funding excellent scientific research, information should become available that will strengthen the evidence base for policy and practice on how population and reproductive health (P/RH) affect poverty and how investments in P/RH might contribute to reducing poverty and fostering economic development and equity. The specific aims of this join call for proposals are:

to fund high-quality scientific research contributing to knowledge that leads to reproductive health and population policy choices to achieve maximum economic benefits;

to enhance production of development-relevant knowledge, engagement of researchers with societal stakeholders and availability of research results relevant for policy and practice at country level;

to strengthen local research capacity in this research field;

to enhance international collaboration and networking between research groups in this research field.

Funds to be Awarded

Up to 8 Research Programmes will receive awards in 2012

NWO-WOTRO (2 awards): maximum €320.000 each

ESRC (1 award): £300.000 or approximately €340.000 (including Indirect and Estate costs according to FEC rules)

RCN (1 to 2 awards): 4 Million Kroner or approx. €500.000 in total

PRB ( 2 awards): maximum $350.000 or approximately €245.000 each

Up to 2 years of funding is available

Eligibility

Research teams must include at least one researcher based in the country of the funding agency (ESRC, NWO-WOTRO, RCN, or PRB) and one researcher based in the developing country of interest. List of countries considered to developing for purpose of this call may be found at www.oecd.org/dac/stats/daclist. Both of whom must have completed their PhD at the time of application.

Proposed research to be supported with the grant funds awarded must be completed in 2 years or less.

The Principal Investigator must be based at an institution eligible to apply for funding from either ESRC, NWO-WOTRO, RCN, or PRB.

Selection Criteria

Scientific quality

Relevance to the themes of the current call

Quality of the collaboration

Potential impact on policy and practice

Deadlines

March 15, 2012 Pre-proposals must be received by PRB June 30, 2012 Full proposals must be received by PRB

The 5th China Economics Summer Institute (CESI) will take place in 2012 (Working papers of previous CESI workshops available at http://igov.berkeley.edu/china_workingpapers and at http://chinasummerinstitute.org ). The objective of CESI is to create a network and community of top level scholars working on Chinese economic development. This initiative is currently co-sponsored by UC Berkeley Center on Institutions and Governance (with generous funding from the Ford Foundation), the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University, the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University and a joint program of the LICOS-Center for Institutions and Economic Performance at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Stanford- CASS REAP (Rural Education Action Program). The Summer Institute will be organized in collaboration with the BREAD, NBER and CEPR networks of academic economists.

This call invites you to submit a paper or express your interest in attending the above Summer Institute which will be hosted this year by Guanghua School of Management at Peking University between June 22d and June 24 2012. The workshop intends to group together the best scholars working on China in China, the US and Europe with other top level scholars who have an interest in working on China in the future. We welcome applications not only from those who want to present their research on China but also from anybody who has an interest in doing serious economic research on China and would like to use the workshop as means of exploring this possibility.

The Summer Institute will bring together between 20 and 30 participants for a period of three days. During the workshop, there will be seminar presentations and free time to allow scholars to interact and explore the possibility of doing joint research projects. Senior scholars who will attend will be available for consultations with junior scholars, usually during the afternoons and there will be some lectures by senior scholars. The Summer Institute will take place at the same time as the BREAD Summer school that will take place in the same location.

Papers for possible presentation at the meeting or expressions of interest in attending the meeting should be e-mailed to igovcesi2012@gmail.com using the attached form by 18:00 GMT on March 19th, 2012.

We can cover economy apex travel and accommodation costs for selected paper presenters and participants. Please indicate when you reply whether you will require this funding or whether you will be able to cover your own travel costs. Please note that it will not be possible to accept all applications to attend this Summer Institute. At the moment, funding is available for travel and accommodation expenses in accordance with standard guidelines (economy apex travel) but, where possible, it is hoped that some of the selected participants will use grants at their disposal to cover expenses and thereby free up space for others.

The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) have recently launched the IZA/DFID Growth and Labour Markets in Low Income Countries Programme (GLM | LIC).

Over the next five years GLM | LIC will provide funding for promising research on growth and labor markets in low-income countries totaling approximately ten million Euros.

GLM | LIC Phase 1 funding is now open for application. Proposals are invited for research projects in the following five research areas: Growth and labor market outcomes, Active labor market policies, Labor market institutions, Skills, Gender.

The 2012 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America will be held Thursday May 3 through Saturday May 5 in San Francisco, CA. As has been true for more than 20 years, there will also be an Economic Demography Workshop (EDW) from 1-5 pm on the afternoon before the main PAA meeting (Wednesday, May 2, 2012). The Workshop provides an opportunity for the detailed presentation of 4-9 papers with more economic content than those generally given in the main meetings.

Interested participants may submit abstracts that have also been submitted for presentation at the main PAA meeting. Please use the "Comments" field to indicate whether the abstract has also been submitted for presentation at the main meeting. Preference will be given to papers that will not also be presented at the main PAA meeting. The program will be finalized in early February.

General information about the PAA Annual Meeting is available from the Population Association of America, 8630 Fenton Street, Suite 722, Silver Spring, MD 20910-3812. Tel: 1-301-565-6710, Fax: 1-301-565-7850. Web: http://www.popassoc.org/

Please forward this announcement to other interested economic demographers. Sign up for email announcements of the Economic Demography Workshop at the EDW website.

ABCDE 2012: Call for Papers

The Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE), organized by the World Bank Development Economics (DEC) Vice Presidency, is one of the world's best known series of conferences for the presentation and discussion of new knowledge on development. The conference aims to promote the exchange of cutting-edge research among researchers, policymakers, and development practitioners. The next conference will take place on May 7-8, 2012, at World Bank Headquarters in Washington, D.C. The theme of the conference will be "Accountability and Transparency for Development".

The ABCDE Organizing Committee is issuing a call for papers that examine in innovative ways the links between accountability, transparency, and development. The selected papers will be presented as main sessions of the conference agenda. Possible topics include the implications of accountability and transparency for:

Public sector management and service delivery

Political processes and outcomes

Aid effectiveness

Management of natural resources

Stability and inclusion in the financial sector

Firm performance and firm dynamics

Also of interest are means that can be used to effectively expand accountability and transparency, including the media and the internet, data collection and dissemination, and mandated versus voluntary disclosure of information. Papers that do not fit into these categories, but are related to the main conference theme, are also welcome.

Those interested should submit a draft paper or a two-page proposal by January 6, 2012(email abcde@worldbank.org). The proposal should include the title of the paper, author(s), affiliation, and contact information, and should address the main question(s) to be examined, relevant literature, unique contribution to the literature, and methodology to be employed. Authors of selected papers will be invited, though not required, to submit their papers for a special issue of the World Bank Economic Review.

The Organizing Committee will evaluate all proposals in terms of originality, analytical rigor, and policy relevance. Authors of accepted proposals will be contacted by January 27, 2012.A work-in-progress draft will be required by February 29, 2012.

For authors of selected papers, travel and accommodation expenses for the conference will be covered. Additional information on the overall conference program will be posted on this website over the coming months.

The Experimental Social Science Laboratory (X-lab) and the Center of Evaluation for Global Action (CEGA) at the University of California at Berkeley, and the Choice Lab at NHH Norwegian School of Economics are pleased to announce the 2011 Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries (SEEDEC) to be held from December 1 to December 3 at U.C. Berkeley. The objective of the Symposium is to bring together a community of top scholars who employ laboratory xperimental economics methods for research in developing countries. Tentative participants this year include Nava Ashraf (Harvard Business School), Colin Camerer (Caltech), Ray Fisman (Columbia GSB), Uri Gneezy (UCSD Rady School of Management), Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard) and Chris Udry (Yale).

Submissions are invited for papers that reflect SEEDEC's broad research agenda which includes studies involving lab experiments in the field (in contrast to focusing on the randomized evaluations that have become widespread in development economics in recent years). The choice of papers will be based on full paper submissions, which should be sent via email by September 15th to Jane Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) at janezhang@ust.hk. Successful applicants will be notified by September 30th and will be invited to attend the full symposium, and SEEDEC will cover their economy travel and accommodations.

Call for Papers Sixth Annual Research Conference on Population, Reproductive Health and Economic Development 18-21 January 2012 Accra, Ghana

The Sixth Annual Research Conference on Population, Reproductive Health and Economic Development will take place from 18-21 January 2012 in Accra, Ghana. Participants will present ongoing and planned research on how population dynamics and reproductive health affect economic development, and work together to identify gaps in evidence and methods that inhibit development of sound policies on population, family planning and reproductive health. There will also be discussions on how to communicate research to decision makers for evidence-based policy.

The Conference's Scientific Program Steering Committee invites paper submissions that address important issues at the intersection of population, reproductive health and economic prosperity. You are invited to submit either a detailed abstract or paper by email to poppov@prb.org in English or French by September 28, 2011 for the Sixth Annual Research Conference. This year, the Committee also welcomes suggestions for panels, which includes a summary of 300 words maximum and an extended abstract for each paper / presenter. You will be notified whether or not your submission has been accepted by October 17, 2011.

The Global Development Network invites researchers and organizations from developing and transition countries to submit research proposals, completed research papers and proposals for scaling-up development projects.

Small & Medium Enterprise (SME) Initiative at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) Entrepreneurship and SME Growth for Young Scholars

The Small & Medium Enterprise (SME) Initiative at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is pleased to announce a SECOND ROUND of funding for the SME Initiative's Competition on Entrepreneurship and SME Growth for Young Scholars. The goal of the grants is to support innovative research by Young Scholars that help to "build a systemic body of evidence on the contribution of SMEs and entrepreneurship to poverty alleviation and economic development." We hope this competition will have a catalyzing effect to stimulate high quality research on the role of access to finance and human capital for SME growth and their contribution to development.

Complete proposals should be emailed to Mike Ingram (mingram@poverty-action.org) by 5:00pm EST on August 22, 2011. If you have any questions, please contact Mike.

CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST Microsaving and Payments Innovation Initiative

The Microsavings and Payments Innovation Initiative (MPII) invites Expressions of Interest (EOI) to conduct rigorous, field-based research on savings products and services as well as payments and money transfer channels for the world's poor and financially excluded. EOI submissions for Round 1 are due Friday, August 5 2011 by 11:59 pm Eastern Daylight Time.

The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) and the Actors, Markets, and Institutions in Developing Countries: A micro-empirical approach (AMID), Marie Curie Initial Training Network are joining forces this year to host a Development Economics Conference at the Paris School of Economics on Friday 23 and Saturday 24 September, 2011. This meeting is at the same time the annual symposium of the CEPR Development Economics Programme, the Twentieth BREAD Development Economics Conference and AMID Third Network Annual Conference. Financial support for the conference is provided by CEPR, BREAD and AMID.

We now invite submissions for the CEPR/BREAD/AMID conference from interested researchers on any topics within the area of Development Economics. Only full-length papers will be considered. The deadline for replies is 18:00 GMT on Friday June 17, 2011. To respond to this Call, CEPR members can visit www.cepr.org/YourProfile/Meetings and indicate whether or not you wish to present a paper or attend the conference. You may also email your paper directly to Nadine Clarke, CEPR Meetings Manager, at nclarke@cepr.org and also indicate to her whether you would like to attend the conference.

CEPR can cover accommodation and travel according to the new CEPR guidelines (www.cepr.org/meets/WKCN/misc/trp.pdf) for all presenters. Funding will also be available for a number of CEPR/BREAD/AMID members who are not presenting.

All papers presented at the conference will be selected through this open submissions process. Please note that there will be time for only a very small number of presentations. The conference lasts about a day and a half; there are no parallel sessions.

For AMID Team Members and Early Stage and Experienced Researchers, the reimbursement of travel costs will be processed through local node budgets. Budget heading E - "Contribution to the research, training, transfer of knowledge" will apply for AMID Team Members, and budget heading D - "Participation allowance" will apply for AMID Early Stage and Experienced Researchers. AMID Participants are expected to pay for their travel directly and claim reimbursement from local nodes. The organisers will pay for the accommodation directly and invoice your local nodes for the total after the event.

The travel and accommodation costs of AMID Experienced and Early Stage Researchers whose contracts commence after the conference, and of those who have completed their contracts prior to the conference, will be covered by the organisers.

Call for Papers Fourth International Conference on MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT Center for International Development, Harvard University, June 10-11, 2011

The Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard Kennedy School, The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, the French Development Agency (AFD) Research Department and the World Bank Development Research Group are jointly organizing the Fourth International Conference on "Migration and Development". The conference is devoted to investigating channels through which international migration affects economic and social outcomes of developing countries. Possible topics include social networks and diaspora externalities, remittances, return migration, migration and the pattern of trade/FDI, brain drain, migration and institutional/technological change, migration and health, and the effect of emigration on poverty, inequality, and human capital formation in developing countries.

A selection of papers from the conference will be considered for possible publication as a special issue of The Journal of Development Economics.

Submission guidelines and timetable: Submissions of full papers (pdf files) are expected by March 15, 2011, to the following address: migration_development@hks.harvard.edu. Contact person: Jennifer Gala. Decisions will be communicated by April 10, 2011.

Travel (economy class) and accommodation expenses for up to three nights in Cambridge will be covered for selected participants.

Call for Applications for the vacancy of Chief Economist at the World Bank

The World Bank seeks to recruit a leading authority on development economics as Chief Economist for the Africa Region. The Chief Economist, based in Washington, DC, will report to the Vice President for the Africa Region, and be his principal economic advisor, with accountability for the quality and relevance of the Bank's economic research and analysis on Africa. This is a 3 year renewable term appointment.

ResponsibilitiesThe selected candidate will - among other responsibilities - lead a team of research economists and guide the Bank's economic research agenda for Africa, interacting with academic and policy communities in client countries, and internationally. He/she will act as the World Bank's spokesperson for economic analysis on African countries, and ensure that the region's economic research and analysis is strategic and reflects latest and cutting edge findings and methodologies.

Selection CriteriaCandidates should have a Ph.D. or equivalent in economics with a minimum of 17 years of relevant experience. The position requires substantive senior level experience in a research and or public or private sector organization. A track record of research on African economies is a distinct advantage.

Submission of Applications and further detailsApplications are accepted through this link Chief Economist Vacancy # 130726. Further details on the job are also available through this link, or by calling Mr Lindani Duma at +1 (202)473-4469 or e-mailing at Lduma@worldbank.org.

The submission deadline is April 23, 2013 at 18h00.

Seeking New Applications for DIV

"At USAID we're pursuing market-driven solutions that really look to see how to involve the business community and we just unveiled a new venture capital style fund called Development Innovation Ventures [DIV], which will invest in creative ideas that we think can lead to game-changing innovations in development."

- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, October 15, 2010

The Development Innovation Ventures' Annual Program Statement 2.0 (APS 2.0) provides guidance for applying for a DIV grant.

DIV emphasizes producing development outcomes more effectively and more cost-efficiently while managing risks and obtaining leverage by focusing on scale as well as partnerships. DIV is a mechanism for working with partners to identify and rigorously test potential development solutions, and helping to scale only those that are proven to produce development impact.

Breakthrough Solutions: DIV encourages entrepreneurs, innovators, businesses, academics, NGOs, and others to submit proposals for cost-saving development solutions. DIV seeks proposals with the potential to substantially improve development outcomes, rather than incremental changes.

Cost-reduction and Leverage: DIV seeks applications that have innovative ideas for addressing development challenges more effectively and more cheaply. DIV utilizes staged financing to maximize cost-effectiveness and minimize risk. In supporting projects with the potential to reach wide-scale, DIV also seeks to leverage other partners in the private, non-profit, and public sectors.

Rigorous Testing and Evidence of Impact: The DIV model emphasizes testing potential solutions and rigorously evaluating impact - often through randomized control trials - in order to identify what works and what does not, and helping scale only those solutions proven to produce development outcomes.

Scale: DIV is explicitly interested in development solutions that have the potential to reach wide-scale, i.e. tens of millions of beneficiaries. DIV funding is provided at three stages or levels.

With the support of the Russia Trust Fund for Financial Literacy and Education, the World Bank is issuing four calls for proposals for research projects that address different aspects of financial capability programs and their evaluation in low and middle income countries.

Please note that based on the World Bank procurement policies, all inquiries regarding these selections must go to the World Bank Procurement office at WBGEConsultant@worldbank.org. No inquiries are to be directed to the World Bank Trust Fund team.

Call for Applications for the Hewlett Foundation/IIE Dissertation Fellowship in Population, Reproductive Health, and Economic Development.

The Institute of International Education (IIE) is now accepting applications for the Dissertation Fellowship in Population, Reproductive Health, and Economic Development. Sponsored by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the fellowship awards up to $20,000 per year for work and research on the dissertation. In addition, Fellows will become part of a network of researchers and participate in professional development opportunities. Applicants should be currently enrolled in Ph.D. programs in either sub-Saharan Africa, the United States or Canada, and should have completed their coursework by the start of the fellowship. Students in economics, economic demography, geography, and epidemiology are especially encouraged to apply.

These fellowships will support dissertation research on topics that examine how population dynamics and family planning and reproductive health influence economic development, including economic growth, poverty reduction on, and equity. Dissertations that address population and development issues pertinent to the African continent are especially encouraged. The research must include a strong quantitative component, with an emphasis on rigorous data analysis. We encourage the development or use of new statistical methods. Finally, the research must have a strong policy-relevant component, demonstrating an interest in communicating research results with program managers, planners, and policymakers.

The objective of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation/IIE Dissertation Fellowship is to produce sound evi dence on the role of population and reproductive health in economic development that could be incorporated in to national and international economic planning and decision making.

To learn more about the fellowship and access the Application, visit: http://www.iie.org/en/Programs/Hewlett- IIE-Fellowship The deadline is March 4, 2011. The selected cohort will be announced in late spring 2011. Research that is not about the relevant subject matter will not be considered.